Ideas

An absorbing overview of ideas - from the belief in God to psychoanalysis - in the history of Western thought.

Zusatztext "[An] extraordinary new book....This is the history of 'ideas' as it has never been presented before." Informationen zum Autor Peter Watson has been a senioreditor at the London Sunday Times , a New York correspondentof the London Times , a columnist for theLondon Observer , and a contributor to the New YorkTimes . He has published three exposés on the world ofart and antiquities, and is the author of several booksof cultural and intellectual history. From 1997 to 2007he was a research associate at the McDonald Institutefor Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.He lives in London. Klappentext Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul—offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves. Zusammenfassung Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing! mathematics! science! and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law! sacrifice! democracy! and the soul—offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.

Autorentext
Peter Watson has been a senioreditor at the London Sunday Times, a New York correspondentof the London Times, a columnist for theLondon Observer, and a contributor to the New YorkTimes. He has published three exposés on the world ofart and antiquities, and is the author of several booksof cultural and intellectual history. From 1997 to 2007he was a research associate at the McDonald Institutefor Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.He lives in London.

Klappentext
Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul—offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.

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