Richard Tarnas is a Harvard-educated historian and professor of philosophy and psychology, and the author of The Passion of the Western Mind. In 2006 he published Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, which received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network in the UK. He is the founding director of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness graduate studies program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and also teaches on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute.
"No other such overview provides, in equal compass, as clear and
cogent a survey. Its scholarship is impeccable....For its length it
is the best intellectual history of the West I have ever seen."
--Huston Smith, Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley
"The most lucid and concise presentation I have read of the grand
lines of what every student should know about the history of
Western thought."--Joseph Campbell
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