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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0345368096
ISBN-13: 9780345368096
Apr 1993
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
A big, friendly, easy-to-follow history of philosophy, Richard Tarnas's book manages to work almost like literary nonfiction in making a vast historical overview seem up to the minute and fraught with drama. Tarnas sees the reader safely through the archetypal philosophies of the ancient Greeks, to Hegel, the scientific revolution, the philosophical revolution, the divided world view, and onwards to post-modernism. A timeline lays everything out, from 200 BC with the migration of Greek-speaking Indo-Europeans into the Aegean area, to the end of the Cold War in the late 20th century. With amazing alacrity, Tarnas unravels the sometimes dense fiber of his subject matter so the reader can not only easily understand the various ways of perceiving the world that have been adapted and discarded over the centuries, but see the reasons behind the changes. This is required reading for anyone interested in the nature of thinking.
| Size | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 21.6 oz |
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