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Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud

Door Peter Watson

Categorie
Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer
#353051-ZC8
Titel
Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud
Auteur
Watson, Peter
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Phoenix
Jaar van uitgave
2006
ISBN10
0753820897
ISBN13
9780753820896
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. 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. 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 Renaissan
... (Lees verder)ce, 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.
Pagina's
1.118
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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