Richard Tarnas's 1991 comprehensive narrative of Western intellectual history — from the ancient Greeks through postmodernism — arguing that Western thought has been characterized by a progressive bifurcation of mind and world, and that a healing synthesis may now be possible.
Creates the most readable comprehensive narrative of Western intellectual history — The Passion of the Western Mind traces the arc from Greek cosmology through Platonic idealism, Scholasticism, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, existentialism, and postmodernism as a single narrative of the self-alienation of Western mind — used in universities worldwide as the introduction to Western thought.
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