The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307804525 (0307804526)
Publish date: October 19th 2011
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 544
Edition language: English
The author had the ability to write the story of the development of understanding our place in the universe and how we fit in it as if he were writing a novel. The narrative flows that well. He's a very good writer. The author steps the reader through the development of how we think about knowled...
I really can’t remember how this book ended up on my to-read shelf. As I recently wanted to read a book on the history of thought like that of Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy, I picked this up since it is relatively recent and thus it would give an idea of some modern schools of tho...
The best single volume work on the development of Western thought. A fascinating look on how we have developed our world view starting from the ancient Greeks and going to the 20th century. A must read.
9 years ago
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