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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 a...

Peter Watson

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 a...

Tags: kafka, thomas mann, woolf

Has profoundly modified the whole trend of modern civilisation, imposing her thought, her standards, her literary forms, her imagery, her visions and dreams wherever she is known. But Germany is the s...

Peter Watson

Has profoundly modified the whole trend of modern civilisation, imposing her thought, her standards, her literary forms, her imagery, her visions and dreams wherever she is known. But Germany is the s...

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Peter Watson may refer to:

Peter William Watson (1761–1830), English merchant and botanist
Peter Watson (shoemaker) (fl. 1824), shoemaker and political activist, Chester-le-Street, England
Peter Watson (arts benefactor) (1908–1956), British art collector, benefactor and publisher
Peter Watson (ophthalmologist) (1930–2017), British ophthalmologist
Peter Watson (footballer, born 1934) (1934–2013), English footballer for Nottingham Forest and Southend United
Peter Watson (footballer, born 1935) (1935–2016), English footballer for Workington
Peter Watson (bishop) (born 1936), Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, 2000–2005
Peter Watson (musician) (born 1941), rock guitarist and member of English 1960s band The Action
Peter Watson (intellectual historian) (born 1943), English intellectual historian and author
Peter Watson (footballer, born 1944), Northern Irish footballer
Peter Watson (politician) (born 1947), member of the Western Australian parliament
Peter Watson (cyclist) (born 1950), English cyclist
Peter Watson (photographer) (born 1952), British landscape photographer

A useful coorective to the triumphalism of some scientists. For example, Maddox went out of his way to emphasise the provisional nature of much physics - he referred to black holes as 'putative' only,...

Peter Watson

A useful coorective to the triumphalism of some scientists. For example, Maddox went out of his way to emphasise the provisional nature of much physics - he referred to black holes as 'putative' only,...

Tags: theory of everything

The discipline of history is particularly important in this context because while science has had a direct impact on how historians write, and what they write about, history has itself been evolving....

Peter Watson

The discipline of history is particularly important in this context because while science has had a direct impact on how historians write, and what they write about, history has itself been evolving....

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both o...

Peter Watson

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both o...

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.

Peter Watson

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.

Tags: innovation, modernism

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), who thought that the French Revolution was the dividing line between the past and a ‘glorious future’, believed there were three o...

Peter Watson

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), who thought that the French Revolution was the dividing line between the past and a ‘glorious future’, believed there were three o...

Live with the consequences of your deeds and enjoy the warmth they create. The only warmth in the cold, indifferent universe is that which we create ourselves. And that is what a work of art is, it is...

Peter Watson

Live with the consequences of your deeds and enjoy the warmth they create. The only warmth in the cold, indifferent universe is that which we create ourselves. And that is what a work of art is, it is...

Tags: existentialism

In some ways this was Goethe’s greatest achievement: the search for the serial relationships in nature, emphasizing border experiences, the junctures where the real joints of nature are located, is mo...

Peter Watson

In some ways this was Goethe’s greatest achievement: the search for the serial relationships in nature, emphasizing border experiences, the junctures where the real joints of nature are located, is mo...

He adored talking about the rich…. But his real wealth was literary. He had read many thousands of books. He said that history was a nightmare during which he was trying to get a good night’s rest. In...

Peter Watson

He adored talking about the rich…. But his real wealth was literary. He had read many thousands of books. He said that history was a nightmare during which he was trying to get a good night’s rest. In...

Grief is an ocean where the waves obey their own rhythm, their own tide, where we are just thrown about to stay afloat as best we can. Where there is in fact no guarantee that we will keep our heads a...

Peter Watson

Grief is an ocean where the waves obey their own rhythm, their own tide, where we are just thrown about to stay afloat as best we can. Where there is in fact no guarantee that we will keep our heads a...

Genetic evidence, of individuals across the world, alive now, shows that all non-African people are descended from one small group that must have passed through the Arabian peninsula.

Peter Watson

Genetic evidence, of individuals across the world, alive now, shows that all non-African people are descended from one small group that must have passed through the Arabian peninsula.

From 1781, by which time Goethe had been in Weimer for six years, he confided to Charlotte that he no longer felt able to address her as Sie, and must use the more intimate du. This brought about a se...

Peter Watson

From 1781, by which time Goethe had been in Weimer for six years, he confided to Charlotte that he no longer felt able to address her as Sie, and must use the more intimate du. This brought about a se...

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?

Peter Watson

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?

Tags: lyotard, science

Even by the end of the seventeenth century, fifty years before our starting point, there was no shortage of people in Europe who felt that the Christian religion had been gravely discredited. Protesta...

Peter Watson

Even by the end of the seventeenth century, fifty years before our starting point, there was no shortage of people in Europe who felt that the Christian religion had been gravely discredited. Protesta...

Doubt is an awful snake of an emotion. Once it has you in it's grip, it won't let go. It spoils everything.

Peter Watson

Doubt is an awful snake of an emotion. Once it has you in it's grip, it won't let go. It spoils everything.

Computable Numbers’ into practice.21 This was

Peter Watson

Computable Numbers’ into practice.21 This was

Cardinal Bellarmino, whom we shall meet in Chapter 25 as the leader of the Catholic Church’s resistance to Copernicus, also said: ‘God wills that man should in some measure know him through his creatu...

Peter Watson

Cardinal Bellarmino, whom we shall meet in Chapter 25 as the leader of the Catholic Church’s resistance to Copernicus, also said: ‘God wills that man should in some measure know him through his creatu...

At its most simple, the notion underlying The Great Chain of Being, as identified in the first instance by Plato, is that the universe is essentially a rational place, in which all organisms are linke...

Peter Watson

At its most simple, the notion underlying The Great Chain of Being, as identified in the first instance by Plato, is that the universe is essentially a rational place, in which all organisms are linke...