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Passion of the Western Mind Richard Tarnas
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

When Robinson was growing up, the West may no longer have had a physical frontier—her great-grandparents were homesteaders—but, despite the fixed plots of land, she didn't find many fixed states of mind. Posted on April 20, 2011 by Michael Lawrence. €�Professor Havlicek: The last book I started reading that I did not want to put down was Tarnas' “The Passion of the Western Mind”. I suspect the edge of fear, or the passion of fear, that can be heard more and more in the national conversation may have behind it a sense that [the] great societal changes [since the 1950s] are not a new birth of freedom but a slippery slope to perdition. When I was a child, I can remember wondering about all kinds of seemingly insoluble questions. Praise for “Van Gogh's Untold Journey”. 190 TAR, TARNAS, Richard, The passion of the Western mind : understanding the ideas that have shaped our world view, Pimlico, 2010. From 1980 to 1990, he wrote The Passion of the Western Mind, a narrative history of Western thought which became a best seller and continues to be a widely used text in universities throughout the world. Richard Tarnas: The Passion of the Western Mind. He discusses his writing the book "Passion of the Western Mind", so people could have a sense of the interior history of Western civilization, philosophy, religion and the ways they intersect. The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View by Richard Tarnas- book review.