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.
《读思想史》用了半个月的时间,期间,穿插读过《美的救赎》、《现代性》,听了台大苑举正教授的通识课《怀疑论》的大半;期间,还对《思想史》写过《人之为人:想象和灵魂》、《文明之路:进退停转》两篇称不上书评的书评,也有过写《救赎之路》书评的打算。这些题外话的意思...
評分从始至终通读就像有一张(经纬并不规则却也不凌乱无序的)网把古今所有人类智慧的珠宝都镶嵌其上,可以让人如数家珍—从旧石器时代到20世纪的珍宝。语言、哲学、宗教、医学、数学、艺术、天文学、科学、地质学、生物学、社会学等等各种现代学科都可以在此溯源,并且找到它们与...
評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...
評分《思想史》的结构和主题是3个:灵魂、欧洲和实验。 一、用更加浅显的话,表述如下:死亡、个人主义和实证精神。 人类思想首先发现了死亡。现在还没有证据证明,动物明白死亡的含义,它们可能明白痛苦,但是不明白死亡。 死亡对于人类来说,就是不连续。如何解释这个不连续? 于...
比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
评分比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
评分比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
评分比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
评分比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
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