An extremely ambitious and clear history of ideas from the earliest times to the present. Peter Watson narrates the history of ideas from prehistory to our days, leading to a new approach to world history. The book begins a million years ago, examining how the first ideas may have arisen, analyzing animal behavior that requires thought: tool-making, territoriality, numeracy, language, family life. All obvious areas are covered: 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 exploration, Shakespeare, the idea of Revolution, Romantic imagination, Darwin, imperialism, modernism, Freud up to the modern age and the internet.

Pages: 1152, Year of Publication: 0907, Dimensions: 13.6x13.6cm