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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud

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The acclaimed author of The German Genius presents a sweeping intellectual historian of human civilization: "[An] extraordinary book" (Sunday Telegraph, UK).

In Ideas, Peter Watson has undertaken a hugely ambitious study, charting the evolution of human history from deep antiquity to the present day through the lens of intellectual development. Here is the grand story of human thought from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law...