Ideas - A History from Fire to Freud

Informationen zum Autor Peter Watson was born in 1943 and educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome. He was deputy editor of New Society and spent four years as part of the 'Insight' team of The Sunday Times. He was New York correspondent of The Times and has written for the Observer, The New York Times, Punch and The Spectator. He is the author of thirteen books and has presented several television programmes about the arts. Since 1998 he has been a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, at the University of Cambridge. Klappentext A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day. 'A masterpiece of historical writing ... an astonishing overview of human intellectual development' NEW STATESMAN Vorwort A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day. 'A masterpiece of historical writing ... an astonishing overview of human intellectual development' NEW STATESMAN Zusammenfassung A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day. 'A masterpiece of historical writing ... an astonishing overview of human intellectual development' NEW STATESMAN

Product details

• Authors: Peter Watson
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2006
• EAN: 9780753820896
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-2089-6
• No. of pages: 1152
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 215 mm x 51 mm
• Series: Weidenfeld and Nicholson
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, PHILOSOPHY / General, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, Society & culture: general, SCIENCE / Natural History, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Society and culture: general, History of Western philosophy