Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Mind Out of Matter: The Mainspring of Ideas
Chapter 2. Gathering Thoughts: Thinking Before Agriculture
Chapter 3. Settled Minds: 'Civilized' Thinking
Chapter 4. The Great Sages: The First Named Thinkers
Chapter 5. Thinking Faiths: Ideas in a Religious Age
Chapter 6. Return to the Future: Thinking Through Plague and Cold
Chapter 7. Global Enlightenments: Joined-Up Thinking in a Joined-Up World
Chapter 8. The Climacteric of Progress: Nineteenth-Century Certainties
Chapter 9. The Revenge of Chaos: Unstitching Certainty
Chapter 10. The Age of Uncertainty: Twentieth-Century Hesitancies
Prospect: The End of Ideas
Notes
Index