a hugely readable and information-packed tome * CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR * An extraordinary new book. In a book of such vast scope, a reader could easily get lost, but the narrative has a powerful momentum.For those who want something more engaging than the dreary Plato to Nato narrative that dominates conventional histories of ideas, this wide range of reference will be invaluable * NEW STATESMAN * It would be a dull reader that failed to be stimulated either by the questions it raises or by the answers it gives to all sorts of questions that one would never have thought of asking * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH * This lively book may stimulate the intellectually curious as they seek to understand the history of the mind * THE TIMES * Thought-provoking. In IDEAS, Watson gives us an astonishing overview of human intellectual development which covers everything. The history of ideas deserves treatment on this scale * EVENING STANDARD * A masterpiece of historical writing. 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. Peter Watson moves on to the apeman and the development of simple ideas such as cooking, the earliest language, the emergence of family life. Looking at animal behaviour that appears to require some thought: tool-making, territoriality, counting, language (or at least sounds), pairbonding. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated.
This is the history of "ideas" as it has never presented before' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 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 masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN 'An extraordinary new book. A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day.
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