The Passion Of The Western Mind
Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407053998
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 560
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
[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
The most lucid and concise presentation of Western thought. The writing is elegant and carries the reader with the momentum of a novel. . . It really is a noble performance.
Joseph Campbell
I have never read a book about the ways in which we think that was clearer or more exciting
John Cleese