Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day&#8212from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul&#8212offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.

Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day&#8212from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul&#8212offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.

In this hugely ambitious and stimulating book, Peter Watson describes the history of ideas, from deep antiquity to the present day, leading to a new way of understanding our world and ourselves. The narrative begins nearly two million years ago with the invention of hand-axes and explores how some of our most cherished notions might have originated before humans had languag...(展开全部)

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,...(展开全部)

彼得•沃森（Peter Watson，1943— ） 英国思想史学者，曾任剑桥大学麦克唐纳考古研究所研究员，《新社会》杂志副主编，为《泰晤士报》《纽约时报》《观察家》等报纸撰写过专栏，以恢宏的思想史作品闻名于西方世界，著有《思想史：从火到弗洛伊德》《20世纪思想史：惊骇之美》《德国天才》等。

彼得•沃森（Peter Watson，1943— ） 英国思想史学者，曾任剑桥大学麦克唐纳考古研究所研究员，《新社会》杂志副主编，为《泰晤士报》《纽约时报》《观察家》等报纸撰写过专栏，以恢宏的思想史作品闻名于西方世界，著有《思想史：从火到弗洛伊德》《20世纪思想史：惊骇之美》《德国天才》等。

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,...(展开全部)

Freud’s concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation over the past fifty years. With Freud and Beyond, Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black make contemporary psychoanalytic thin...(展开全部)

Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation over the past fifty years. With <i>Freud and Beyond, </i>Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black make contemporary psychoanalytic...(展开全部)

Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation over the past fifty years. With Freud and Beyond, Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black make contemporary psychoanalytic thinki...(展开全部)