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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud de Peter Watson

Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud

Autor Peter Watson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2006
Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day&#8212from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul&#8212offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780060935641
ISBN-10: 0060935642
Pagini: 852
Dimensiuni: 187 x 235 x 34 mm
Greutate: 1.1 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial

Recenzii

“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)

Notă biografică

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 exposés 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.

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A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day.

'A masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN

'An extraordinary new book ... This is the history of "ideas" as it has never presented before' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. Looking at animal behaviour that appears to require some thought: tool-making, territoriality, counting, language (or at least sounds), pairbonding.

Peter Watson moves on to the apeman and the development of simple ideas such as cooking, the earliest language, the emergence of family life. All the obvious areas are tackled: the Ancient Greeks, Christian theology, the ideas of Jesus, astrological thought, the soul, the self, beliefs about the heavens, the ideas of Islam, the Crusades, humanism, the Renaissance, Gutenberg and the book, the scientific revolution, the age of discovery, Shakespeare, the idea of Revolution, the Romantic imagination, Darwin, imperialism, modernism, Freud right up to the present day and the internet.