Peter Watson

Peter Watson is an intellectual historian and the author of books including A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind and The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God (both Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Articles by Peter Watson

The Death of St Francis

All in the mind

Terry Eagleton and Roger Scruton are the latest in a line of thinkers to suggest that, without religion, something is missing in our lives. They’re wrong, argues Peter Watson

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