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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud

Autor Peter Watson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2006
Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day&#8212from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul&#8212offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780060935641
ISBN-10: 0060935642
Pagini: 852
Dimensiuni: 187 x 235 x 34 mm
Greutate: 1.1 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial

Recenzii

“This is a grand book...The history of ideas deserves treatment on this scale.” — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Evening Standard (London)
“A superior specimen, with numerous interesting factoids...thought-provoking short essays.” — John Derbyshire, New York Sun
“A masterpiece of historical writing.” — John Gray, Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics, New Statesman
“[An] extraordinary new book....This is the history of ‘ideas’ as it has never been presented before.” — Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph (London)

Notă biografică

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.


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A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day.