Ideas

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ISBN: 9780060935641 | 0060935642
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Copyright: 3/12/2010

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Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day-from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul-offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.

Introduction : the most important ideas in history - some candidates	p. 1
Prologue : the discovery of time	p. 12
Lucy to Gilgamesh : the evolution of imagination
Ideas before language	p. 21
The emergence of language and the conquest of cold	p. 39
The birth of the gods, the evolution of house and home	p. 53
Cities of wisdom	p. 73
Isaiah to Zhu Xi : the romance of the soul
Sacrifice, soul, saviour : 'the spiritual breakthrough'	p. 99
The origins of science, philosophy and the humanities	p. 123
The ideas of Israel, the idea of Jesus	p. 149
Alexandria, occident and orient in the year 0	p. 171
Law, Latin, literacy and the liberal arts	p. 199
Pagans and Christians, Mediterranean and Germanic traditions	p. 217
The near-death of the book, the birth of Christian art	p. 242
Falsafah and al-Jabr in Baghdad and Toledo	p. 258
Hindu numerals, Sanskrit, Vedanta	p. 282
China's scholar-elite, Lixue and the culture of the brush	p. 297
The great hinge of history : European acceleration
The idea of Europe	p. 319
Aquinas to Jefferson : the attack on authority, the idea of the secular and the birth of modern individualism
'Half-way between God and Man' : the techniques of papal thought-control	p. 339
The spread of learning and the rise of accuracy	p. 363
The arrival of the secular : capitalism, humanism, individualism	p. 388
The explosion of the imagination	p. 406
The mental horizon of Christopher Columbus	p. 424
The 'Indian' mind : ideas in the new world	p. 441
History heads north : the intellectual impact of Protestantism	p. 458
The genius of the experiment	p. 474
Liberty, property and community : origins of conservatism and liberalism	p. 496
The 'atheist scare' scare and the advent of doubt	p. 512
From soul to mind : the search for the laws of human nature	p. 527
The idea of the factory and its consequences	p. 550
The invention of America	p. 572
Vico to Freud : parallel truths : the modern incoherence
The oriental renaissance	p. 589
The great reversal of values - romanticism	p. 606
The rise of history, pre-history and deep time	p. 624
New ideas about human order : the origins of social science and statistics	p. 646
The uses and abuses of nationalism and imperialism	p. 660
The American mind and the modern university	p. 687
Enemies of the cross and the Qur'an - the end of the soul	p. 703
Modernism and the discovery of the unconscious	p. 718
Conclusion : the electron, the elements and the elusive self	p. 735
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