TY - BOOK AU - Tarnas,Richard TI - The passion of the western mind: : understanding the ideas that have shaped our world view SN - 9780345368096 U1 - 190 PY - 1991/// CY - New Your: United State America. PB - Ballantine books. KW - FILOSOFIA MODERNA KW - LEMB N1 - The greek world view/ The transformation of the classical era/The christian world view/Transformation of the medieval era/The modern world view/The transformation of the modern era/Epilogue N2 - "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. The writing is elegant and carries the reader with the momentum of a novel... It is really a noble performance." --Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESTERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume ER -