Ten years in the making, The Passion of the Western Mind was hailed as an instant classic on publication. In it, Tarnas provides a compelling account of the evolution of the Western mind and its changing conception of reality. Advances on several fronts – in philosophy, psychology, religous studies and the history of science – have shed new light on this remarkable evolution and Tarnas draws together these advances to set forth a new perspective for understanding out culture’s intellectual and spiritual history. The result is a complete liberal education in a single volume.