Richard Tarnas

American philosopher who wrote The Passion of the Western Mind — the most widely used intellectual history of Western philosophy — and Cosmos and Psyche — an attempt to demonstrate the validity of archetypal astrology through the correlation of major historical events and planetary configurations.

Created the most accessible single-volume intellectual history of the West — The Passion of the Western Mind's narrative of Western thought from the Greeks through postmodernism, told as the story of the bifurcation of mind and world and its potential healing, provides the most readable introductory account of Western intellectual history for educated non-specialists.