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

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Random House Publishing Group, 19 okt 2011 - 560 pagina's
"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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 WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.

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Critical Scholasticism and Ockhams Razor
200
The Rebirth of Classical Humanism
209
At the Threshold
220
The Reformation
233
The Scientific Revolution
248
The Philosophical Revolution
272
The Transformation of the Modern Era
325
The SelfCritique of the Modern Mind
333

The Emergence of Christianity
89
Classical Elements and the Platonic Inheritance
98
The Conversion of the Pagan Mind
106
Contraries Within the Christian Vision
120
Dualistic Christianity
130
Further Contraries and the Augustinian Legacy
138
The Holy Spirit and Its Vicissitudes
155
The Virgin Mary and the Mother Church
162
The Transformation of the Medieval Era
171
The Quest of Thomas Aquinas
179
Further Developments in the High Middle Ages
191
The Crisis of Modern Science
355
Romanticism and Its Fate
366
The Postmodern Mind
395
At the Millennium
411
Knowledge and the Unconscious
422
The Evolution of World Views
433
Bringing It All Back Home
441
Notes
468
Bibliography
494
Acknowledgments
513
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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 UKHe 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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