![]() | Intellectual life - History - 20th century. 827) and indexes.Ĭivilization, Modern - 20th century. Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. Looking at animal behaviour that appears to require some. Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present dayfrom the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the souloffers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves. ![]() The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. Beginning with four seminal ideas that were introduced in 1990 - the unconscious, the gene, the quantum, and Picasso's first paintings in Paris - Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the past century."-BOOK JACKET. In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. From Freud to Babbitt, from Relativity to Susan Sontag, from Proust to Henri Bergson to Saul Bellow, the book's range is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. "This narrative history of the people and ideas that shaped the modern world is a brilliantly reasoned examination of the thought and individuals that made twentieth-century culture. ![]() The modern mind : an intellectual history of the 20th century / Peter Watson Book Bib ID ![]()
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