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. Second, there are the great turnings out, which lead to exploration, travel, science, and innovations in business. Freud’s discovery of the unconscious revolutionized our self-understanding, for many people anyway. Skip to main content 15 Off Limited-Time Offer. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 35.00.

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. Romanticism gave us the greatest era of music the world has known. Buy Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson online at Alibris. 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. A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day. Read 147 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers.

Ideas a history from fire to freud