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Ideas : A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-10006621064X
ISBN-139780066210643
eBay Product ID (ePID)10038261385
Product Key Features
Book TitleIdeas : a History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
Number of Pages848 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMinority Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World
Publication Year2005
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorPeter Watson
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.8 in
Item Weight55 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-050255
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"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), [An] extraordinary new book....This is the history of 'ideas' as it has never been presented before.
Dewey Decimal909
SynopsisIn this hugely ambitious and stimulating book, Peter Watson describes the history of ideas, from deep antiquity to the present day, leading to a new way of understanding our world and ourselves. The narrative begins nearly two million years ago with the invention of hand-axes and explores how some of our most cherished notions might have originated before humans had language. Then, in a broad sweep, the book moves forward to consider not the battles and treaties of kings and prime ministers, emperors and generals, but the most important ideas we have evolved, by which we live and which separate us from other animals. Watson explores the first languages and the first words, the birth of the gods, the origins of art, the profound intellectual consequences of money. He describes the invention of writing, early ideas about law, why sacrifice and the soul have proved so enduring in religion. He explains how ideas about time evolved, how numbers were conceived, how science, medicine, sociology, economics, and capitalism came into being. He shows how the discovery of the New World changed forever the way that we think, and why Chinese creativity faded after the Middle Ages. In the course of this commanding narrative, Watson reveals the linkages down the ages in the ideas of many apparently disparate philosophers, astronomers, religious leaders, biologists, inventors, poets, jurists, and scores of others. Aristotle jostles with Aquinas, Ptolemy with Photius, Kalidasa with Zhu Xi, Beethoven with Strindberg, Jefferson with Freud. Ideas is a seminal work.
LC Classification NumberCB69.W38 2005
