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...
评分紧锣密鼓,打鱼晒网,读到了第四部。第三部读完,给《思想史》打了五星,这五星是必须的,尽管我在书评《人之为人:想象和灵魂》中略有微词。 在人类文明的进程中,“因为某种原因,过去许多人把思想史看作一个三分体系,即围绕三段思想、三个时代或三项原则进行”。不管孔德的...
评分思想是什么, 这本身就是一个非常难以定义的东西, 但是作者想为思想立传, 这就是非常困难地事情. 历史学家在写史之前一定要给自己一个明确的对象和目标. 像这本思想史, 就很容易写成哲学史或者是通史, 我认为作者写着写着就陷入了后者. 内容丰富, 但是缺乏流动, 弹性和深度. 私...
评分这套书最大的特点就是广博,以百万文字呈现泱泱几千年人类思想的发展演变历史,是一项庞大的工程。有人说更像是文献汇编,我觉得即便作为文献综述,也是高质量完成的作品。时间上从史前、古代欧亚、中世纪、文艺复兴、工业革命到现代,类型上语言、文字、宗教、科学、哲学、人...
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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