The Modern Mind

From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is 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 ...

From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is 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.

彼得·沃森

（Peter Watson，1943— ）

英国思想史学者，曾任剑桥大学麦克唐纳考古研究所研究员，《新社会》杂志副主编，为《泰晤士报》、《纽约时报》、《观察家》等报纸撰写过专栏，以拒绝简化的恢宏思想史作品闻名于西方世界，著有《思想史：从火到弗洛伊德》、《20世纪思想史：从弗洛伊德到互联网》、《德国天才》、《大分离：新旧大陆分道扬镳的历史》等。