Peter Watson

The Modern Mind (eBook, ePUB)

An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Splendidly readable and hugely informative.... Episode after episode from the cultural life of the twentieth century springs to vivid life." - Boston Globe From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farmto Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mindis encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it. "Watson's rich narrative covers every corner of intellectual life in the twentieth century." - Publishers Weekly "Packed with a multitude of events, ideas, and influential people, Watson's infectious writing carries the reader swiftly along.... This book will be read and consulted for many years." - Library Journal "Enthralling, illuminating, and intellectually titillating." - Booklist

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins e-books
• Seitenzahl: 868
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062039125
• Artikelnr.: 38006392

Autorenporträt

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.