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Peter Frank Patrick Watson (born 23 April 1943) is a British intellectual historian and former journalist, now perhaps best known for his work in the history of ideas. His journalistic work includes detailed investigations of auction houses and the international market in stolen antiquities .
Sep 26, 2006 · Peter Watson is the author of War on the Mind, Wisdom and Strength, The Caravaggio Conspiracy, Ideas, and The German Genius. Educated at the universities of Durham, London, and Rome, he has written for the Sunday Times, the Times, the New York Times, the Observer, and the Spectator.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Peter Watson. 4.31. 1,068 ratings102 reviews. From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live.
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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. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated.
Peter Watson has 297 books on Goodreads with 39627 ratings. Peter Watson’s most popular book is Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to F...
May 12, 2005 · 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.
Dec 11, 2005 · THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 12-11-05: QUESTIONS FOR PETER WATSON. What's the Big Idea? Share full article. By Deborah Solomon. Dec. 11, 2005. Q: Your ambitious new book, "Ideas: A History of Thought...
