- Civilization, Western, Consciousness, Religion and science, Philosophy
Ten years in the making and already receiving wide critica acclaim, The Passion of the Western Mind is a major new inquiry into the evolution of our culture's consciousness, from the dawn of Western civilization to the dawn of the twenty-first century. This is the epic sstory of our intellectual and spiritual heritage, a story never before told with such breadth of focus and clarity of insight.
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Epic, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Richard Tarnas
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Pimlico, KRON-PRESS
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780517577905
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“To approach what was distinctive in a vision as complex and protean as that of the Greeks, let us begin by examining one of its most striking characteristics-a sustained, highly diversified tendency to interpret the world in terms of archetypal principles.”
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