IDEAS: A HISTORY FROM FIRE TO FREUD

Book ID/图书代码： 00470005B02806

English Summary/英文概要： In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, seeking a new way to tell 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, counting, language (or at least sounds), pairbonding – Peter Watson moves on to the apeman and the development of simple ideas such as cooking, the earliest language, the emergence of family life. All the obvious areas will be tackled – the Ancient Greeks, Christian theology, the ideas of Jesus, astrological thought, the soul, the self, beliefs about the heavens, the ideas of Islam, the Crusades, humanism, the Renaissance, Gutenberg and the book, the scientific revolution, the age of discovery, Shakespeare, the idea of Revolution, the Romantic imagination, Darwin, imperialism, modernism, Freud right up to the present day and the internet.
IDEAS: A HISTORY will concentrate on the activities and achievements of philosophers, writers, artists, scientists, inventors, religious thinkers, poets, historians, jurists and dramatists, investigating how their ideas have shaped our lives and thinking.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《創意史》是部博大精深的作品，它闡述了人類的思維創意史-------從遠古到現在，掀起了一股全新的世界觀和人生觀。
作品以兩百萬年前的遠古時代為開場白的，告訴讀者早在人類還不具備語言能力之前，便創造了許多可貴創意，並分析這些創意誕生的可能性，這本書並不涉及政治、戰爭，也不論述國王、將軍、首相們簽訂的協議，而是把焦點集中於人類歷史上最為關鍵的創意與思想-------那些把人和動物區分開來的創意。

Awards/获奖情况：◎ 知名歷史學家
◎ 當代文史哲、藝術文化評論大師
◎ 曾任《泰晤士報》、《觀察者雜誌》、《紐約時報》、《旁觀者雜誌》等多家知名國際報社媒體之編輯和專欄作家
◎ 自1983年起即為國際的藝術代理商
◎ 曾揭發並報導藝術品走私犯罪集團，其報導〈卡拉瓦喬的叛謀〉(The Caravaggio Conspiracy)被英國BBC改編成劇本並獲艾美獎提名

About the Author/作者介绍： Peter Watson出生於1943年，受教於杜倫大學、倫敦大學和羅馬大學，並為劍橋大學麥克唐納考古研究所研究員(http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/)。曾是《New Society》雜誌(英國政治性周刊)的責任編輯，於《The Sunday Times》周日泰晤士報服務四年，擔任泰晤士報紐約特派員，也為《Obeserver》觀察者雜誌、《The New York Times》紐約時報、《Punch》雜誌、《The Spectator》旁觀者雜誌等多家報社媒體撰稿。出版過13本書，1983年成為國際的藝術代理商，揭發了走私義大利繪畫至美國的犯罪集團，其深入地追查使四人遭受判決。他的報導〈卡拉瓦喬的叛謀〉(The Caravaggio Conspiracy)被英國BBC改編成劇本並獲艾美獎提名。此後，瓦森陸續出版了四本關於藝術圈的驚悚小說。
Peter Watson was born in 1943 and educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome. He was deputy editor of New Society and spent four years as part of the ‘Insight’ team of The Sunday Times. He was New York correspondent of The Times and has written for the Observer, The New York Times, Punch and The Spectator. He is the author of thirteen books and has presented several television programmes about the arts. Since 1998 he has been a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research , at the University of Cambridge. (http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/)
更多關於Peter Watson的介紹：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watson_(business_writer)

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