The Passion of the Western Mind
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: July 4, 1996
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780712673327
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Philosophy
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.