The Passion of the Western Mind
Subtitle: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: March 16, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780345368096
Subjects: History & Surveys - General; Philosophy / General; Philosophy; Civilization, Western; History; Religion and science
First sentence: To approach what was distinctive in a vision as complex and protean as that of the Greeks, let us begin by examining one of its most striking characteristics-a sustained, highly diversified tendency to interpret the world in terms of archetypal principles.