Peter Watson
Born
January 01, 1943
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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
49 editions
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2005
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The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
21 editions
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2010
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The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century
27 editions
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2000
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The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums
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18 editions
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2006
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Landscape of Lies
19 editions
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1989
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The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God
15 editions
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2014
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Madeleine's War
10 editions
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2015
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The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New
20 editions
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2012
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The Nazi's Wife
8 editions
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1985
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Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science
17 editions
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2016
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“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.”
― A Terrible Beauty : The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History
― A Terrible Beauty : The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History
“...for example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually the entire corpus of surrealism, Dada, and certain major forms of expressionism and abstraction, not to mention Richard Strauss' 'Freudian' operas such as Salome and Elektra, and the iconic novels of numerous writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann and Virginia Woolf? It doesn't render these works less beautiful or pleasurable, necessarily, but it surely dilutes their meaning. They don't owe their entire existence to psychoanalysis. But if they are robbed of a large part of their meaning, can they retain their intellectual importance and validity? Or do they become period pieces? I stress the point because the novels, paintings and operas referred to above have helped to popularise and legitimise a certain view of human nature, one that is, all evidence to the contrary lacking, wrong.”
― A Terrible Beauty : The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History
― A Terrible Beauty : The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History
“For many scientists, as Lyotard concedes, scientific knowledge is the only form of knowledge there is, but if so, how then do we understand fairy stories and law?”
― A Terrible Beauty : The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History
― A Terrible Beauty : The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History
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