The Passion Of The Western Mind

[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'West'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 as if for the first time

San Francisco Chronicle

30,000 years of Western thought distilled into a powerful, enthralling narrative

Sydney Morning Herald

An extraordinary work of scholarship. It not only places the history of Western thought in perspective, but offers new insights concerning the evolution of our thinking and the future of the whole human enterprise

John E. Mack, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

I have never read a book about the ways in which we think that was clearer or more exciting

John Cleese

Quite brilliant

Guardian

The best intellectual history of the West in one volume I have ever seen. No other such overview provides, in equal compass, as clear and cogent a survey, Its scholarship is impeccable

Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions

The most thrilling narrative of the West's 3000-year odyssey in pursuit of truth accessible to a broad public... A work of genius

Hellenic Journal