Ideas: a history from fire to freud
Watson, Peter
Ideas: a history from fire to freud - London Phoenix 2005 - xxv, 1118 p. 21 cm ; Pbk
Part one. Lucy to Gilgamesh : The evolution of Imagination
Part Two. Isaiah to Zhu XI : the Romance of the Soul
Part Three. The great hinge of History: European Acceleration
Part Four. Acquinas to Jeferson : the attack authority the idea of the Secular and the Birth of Modern Individualism
Part Five. Vico to Freud : Parallel Truths the modern incoherence.
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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Capitalism
Civilization
Intellectual life
Ideas: a history from fire to freud - London Phoenix 2005 - xxv, 1118 p. 21 cm ; Pbk
Part one. Lucy to Gilgamesh : The evolution of Imagination
Part Two. Isaiah to Zhu XI : the Romance of the Soul
Part Three. The great hinge of History: European Acceleration
Part Four. Acquinas to Jeferson : the attack authority the idea of the Secular and the Birth of Modern Individualism
Part Five. Vico to Freud : Parallel Truths the modern incoherence.
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.
0 7538 2089 7
Capitalism
Civilization
Intellectual life