The Top 19 Books About The History of Ideas

  1. Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
  2. A Brief History of Everything
  3. Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought
  4. The History of Philosophy Volumes 1-9 –  A. C. Grayling
  5. Prometheus Rising
  6. A History of Philosophy – Frederick Copleston
  7. History of the Idea of Progress
  8. The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity
  9. A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World
  10. Confessions of a Philosopher: A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to Popper
  11. The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
  12. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
  13. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
  14. The Lessons of History
  15. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  16. I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy
  17. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
  18. Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church
  19. A History of Western Philosophy

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