| Intellectual life - History - 20th century. 827) and indexes.Ĭivilization, Modern - 20th century. In this hugely ambitious and stimulating book, Peter Watson describes the history of ideas, from deep antiquity to the present day, leading to a new way of understanding our world and ourselves.The narrative begins nearly two million years ago with the invention of hand-axes and explores how some of our most cherished notions might have originated before humans had language. Overall, Ideas offers a comprehensive overview of the history of ideas, providing readers with a rich understanding of the intellectual currents that have. Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. 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. 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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