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 expos�s 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.
"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)
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