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.
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