The American mind and the modern universityĮnemies of the cross and the Qur'an - the end of the soul The uses and abuses of nationalism and imperialism New ideas about human order : the origins of social science and statistics
The rise of history, pre-history and deep time The great reversal of values - romanticism Vico to Freud : parallel truths : the modern incoherence
The idea of the factory and its consequences The 'atheist scare' scare and the advent of doubtįrom soul to mind : the search for the laws of human nature Liberty, property and community : origins of conservatism and liberalism History heads north : the intellectual impact of Protestantism The 'Indian' mind : ideas in the new world The mental horizon of Christopher Columbus The arrival of the secular : capitalism, humanism, individualism The spread of learning and the rise of accuracy 'Half-way between God and Man' : the techniques of papal thought-control The great hinge of history : European accelerationĪquinas to Jefferson : the attack on authority, the idea of the secular and the birth of modern individualism The near-death of the book, the birth of Christian artįalsafah and al-Jabr in Baghdad and ToledoĬhina's scholar-elite, Lixue and the culture of the brush Pagans and Christians, Mediterranean and Germanic traditions Law, Latin, literacy and the liberal arts The origins of science, philosophy and the humanitiesĪlexandria, occident and orient in the year 0 Sacrifice, soul, saviour : 'the spiritual breakthrough' Isaiah to Zhu Xi : the romance of the soul The birth of the gods, the evolution of house and home The emergence of language and the conquest of cold Lucy to Gilgamesh : the evolution of imagination
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.Introduction : the most important ideas in history - some candidates 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. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. 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.
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