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

Watson, Peter

ISBN 10: 0060935642 / ISBN 13: 9780060935641

Edité par Harper Perennial, 2006

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Synopsis :

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.

À propos de l?auteur:

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, ...
Éditeur : Harper Perennial
Date d'édition : 2006
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Good