The Passion of the Western Mind

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This book presents a concise narrative history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern. My aim has been to provide, within the limits of a single volume, a coherent account of the evolution of the Western mind and its changing conception of reality. Recent advances on several fronts - in philosophy, depth psychology, religious studies, and history of science - have shed new light on this remarkable evolution. The historical account presented here has been greatly influenced and enriched by these advances, and at the end of the narrative I have drawn on them to set forth a new perspective for understanding our culture's intellectual and spiritual history.

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