Peter Watson is the author of War on the Mind, Wisdom and Strength, The Caravaggio Conspiracy, Ideas, and The German Genius. Educated at the universities of Durham, London, and Rome, he has written for the Sunday Times, the Times, the New York Times, the Observer, and the Spectator. He lives in London.
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 language. Then, in a broad sweep, the book moves forward to consider not the battles and treaties of kings and prime ministers, emperors and generals, but the most important ideas we have evolved, by which we live and which separate us from other animals. Watson explores the first languages and the first words, the birth of the gods, the origins of art, the profound intellectual consequences of money. He describes the invention of writing, early ideas about law, why sacrifice and the soul have proved so enduring in religion. He explains how ideas about time evolved, how numbers were conceived, how science, medicine, sociology, economics, and capitalism came into being. He shows how the discovery of the New World changed forever the way that we think, and why Chinese creativity faded after the Middle Ages. In the course of this commanding narrative, Watson reveals the linkages down the ages in the ideas of many apparently disparate philosophers, astronomers, religious leaders, biologists, inventors, poets, jurists, and scores of others. Aristotle jostles with Aquinas, Ptolemy with Photius, Kalidasa with Zhu Xi, Beethoven with Strindberg, Jefferson with Freud. Ideas is a seminal work.
用三天时间,读到《思想史》的第二部第10节。 因为有一套《最伟大的思想家》,还有一套《中国历代思想家》,所以对本书特别感兴趣。 前者,读到涉及相关作者的书时,零星的读过。因为知识储备不够,没有系统的读。而后者,疫情前就通读过。 之前,还读过《全球通史》,《西方哲...
评分用了近20天时间读完了这本煌煌巨著,有些章节很吸引人,有些则读起来十分痛苦,硬着头皮啃完,到最后结语部分,才真正明白作者说的是什么。 人类(西方视野下)的思想史,实际上是人类的思想创造、引发的历史,就其类型而言,可以分为外在、内在两种。作者将科学的物质世界归为...
评分与作者的《20世纪思想史》相比,这本书的质量要逊色不止一筹。20世纪以前的科学哲学宗教艺术文学史太过于庞杂,作者的学养和笔力不足以贯通,显得心有余而力不足。 19世纪之前的历史,可分成九个阶段: 渔猎;畜牧;农耕;希腊的商业科学哲学时代;从亚历山大到罗马帝国灭亡时...
评分译︱郑文博 在人们看到我写的书时,往往会提出以下三个问题,或者其中一个:思想是如何吸引你的?思想史究竟是什么?思想史与政治史之间有无关联?而其中最后一个关于思想史与政治史之间是否存在关联的问题,其答案在一定程度上蕴含在前两个问题的回答中间。 常规或者说正统的...
评分这种摘册成史的书特别适合我等人文知识素养浅薄的人来看。 因为本质是讲历史所以故事性很强,历史故事本身就很有趣啊!结构稳重分明有起伏,语言精准朴实,每章节主线清晰并逐渐展开本书的总主题,于是伴随着作者的引导有种像是探索故事的情境,很有听说书和探险小说的乐趣。 ...
比较类的思想史,印象深的还是在原始概念,中古中亚范围,和现代世界的多元映象挺深,越到后面,越融合得成熟
评分比较类的思想史,印象深的还是在原始概念,中古中亚范围,和现代世界的多元映象挺深,越到后面,越融合得成熟
评分比较类的思想史,印象深的还是在原始概念,中古中亚范围,和现代世界的多元映象挺深,越到后面,越融合得成熟
评分比较类的思想史,印象深的还是在原始概念,中古中亚范围,和现代世界的多元映象挺深,越到后面,越融合得成熟
评分比较类的思想史,印象深的还是在原始概念,中古中亚范围,和现代世界的多元映象挺深,越到后面,越融合得成熟
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