Peter Watson explains the intellectual story of the human history and his particular view of the human history summarizing the main ideas of the world’s history. He also exposes a critical viewpoint on the generally extended opinion “that we live in the most interesting era of all times as compared to the 19th and early 20th century.

Peter Watson is an intellectual historian from London author of thirteen books, including The Modern Mind: an Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. He is a research associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.

In his last book Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud (Hardcover) Watson offers a broad overview of human intellectual and cultural development written as a chronology of ideas; it is the intellectual story of the human history. Peter Watson describes an original perspective on the history of the world… a new way of telling the history. 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. All the important ideas are discussed, beginning with how the earliest ideas might have originated. From 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, the scientific revolution, the age of discovery, Shakespeare, the idea of Revolution, the Romantic imagination, Darwin, imperialism, Freud right up to the present day and the internet.