Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View - Brossura

Tarnas, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0345368096 ISBN 13: 9780345368096

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 1993

Riassunto

An inquiry into the rich heritage of humankind's cultural revolution discuss the pivotal ideas that have shaped Western civilization, including those of Plato, Hegel, Augustine, Nietzsche, Copernicus, and Freud. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"No other such overview provides, in equal compass, as clear and cogent a survey. Its scholarship is impeccable....For its length it is the best intellectual history of the West I have ever seen." --Huston Smith, Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley
"The most lucid and concise presentation I have read of the grand lines of what every student should know about the history of Western thought."--Joseph Campbell

L'autore:

Richard Tarnas is a Harvard-educated historian and professor of philosophy and psychology, and the author of The Passion of the Western Mind. In 2006 he published Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, which received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network in the UK. He is the founding director of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness graduate studies program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and also teaches on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0345368096
• ISBN 13: 9780345368096
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 560