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Richard Tarnas - The Passion of the Western Mind

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Read By: Ronald B. Meyer
Copyright: 1990
Audiobook Copyright: 2008
Genre: Philosophy

Number of MP3s: 19
Total Duration: 22:20:51
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 96 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
Noise Reduction: Adobe Audition
ID3 Tags: Set, v2.3

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"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."

Reviews:

"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
The Power of Myth
The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“THE BEST HISTORY OF WESTERN THOUGHT I HAVE READ.… MASTERFUL.”
Robert A. McDermott
Chairman, Philosophy Department
Baruch College, City University of New York

“An extraordinary work of scholarship. It not only places the history of Western thought in perspective, but derives new insights concerning the evolution of our thinking and the future of the whole human enterprise.”
John E. Mack
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Prince of Our Disorder and The Alchemy of Survival

“This is the most creative and comprehensive treatment of the history of Western thought I know.… The book is a real masterpiece.”
Stanislav Grof
Professor of Psychology
California Institute of Integral Studies
Author of Realms of the Human Unconscious and Beyond the Brain

“I revelled in the intellectual pleasure and stimulation it gave me from beginning to end. And when I got to the end, I wanted to read it all over again.… I have added it to a small set of books—about ten, and including my dictionary, the Bible, etc.—which sit in my ‘permanent collection’ on my desk.… A perfect book, without flaw. No accolade would be excessive.”
Kenneth Ring
Professor of Psychology, University of Connecticut
Author of The Omega Project

“AN INTELLECTUAL TOUR DE FORCE that presents a brilliant overview of the development of the Western world view in accessible form. The summary of the postmodern mind alone is worth the price of the book.”
Stanley Krippner
Professor of Psychology
Saybrook Institute

“A work of high adventure and intellectual daring.”
Gary Lachman
Bodhi Tree Review

“The Passion of the Western Mind is a masterful chronicle of the roots and major flowerings of the Western search for understanding, from the pre-Socratic Greeks to the present day. It is also a powerful, multi-layered synthesis that precisely integrates the philosophic, spiritual, and scientific dimensions of that search, and prophesies its coming transformation.… A great work of art, an original illumination.”
Harrison Sheppard
The Hellenic Journal

“[Tarnas] has succeeded in weighing thousands of facts and welding them together into a breathtaking intellectual synthesis, presented in accomplished prose.”
Georg Feuerstein, Spectrum Review

“A sweeping intellectual overview of the emergence and evolution of human thought from the earliest times down to the present day.… With this volume Richard Tarnas goes a long way toward establishing himself as a modern day Encyclopaedist.”
The New England Review of Books

“SUCCEEDS SPECTACULARLY … AN EXCITING READ, A PAGE-BURNER.”
Robert Craft
The Quest

“Exceptionally well-organized … extremely well-written.… Above all, it is replete with insights that ‘go off’ like wonderful little firecrackers throughout the text.… Its radically interdisciplinary nature explicitly calls into question the division of knowledge into ‘fields,’ which is, to be sure, a large part of the point of the tale and its significance: not trees, but the whole jungle in compelling articulation.… [The book includes] the most concise and compelling account of early Christian history that I have ever read.”
David L. Miller
Professor of Religion, Syracuse University
author of The New Polytheism

“Richard Tarnas possesses a fascinating lucidity, and in The Passion of the Western Mind moves with ease among complex matters without sacrificing a bit of their complexity.”
Jeffrey Hart
National Review

“An important new interpretation for the comprehension of history, culture, and humanity itself.… Uncompromising clarity, breadth, and simplicity.”
Kevan Prosnick
The Inner Door

“Truly on the cutting edge of thinking.”
Harvard Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age

About the Author

"Richard Tarnas, Ph.D., is professor of philosophy and psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and founding director of its graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He is also adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, where he teaches in the clinical and depth psychology programs. Formerly director of programs and education at Esalen Institute, he is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of the Western world view that has become both a bestseller and a widely used text in universities. He is also the author of Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, published by Viking Press in 2006."

Comments

This would be a powerful audiobook to re-share. Anyone still have a copy?

I was not aware of this older copy from 1990, but did notice that Audible has a newer set with possibly a different narrator from 2020. I will look for both.