An elegant addition to the successful 1001 seriesa comprehensive, chronological guide to the most important thoughts from the finest minds of the past 3,000 years.From Democracy to Cultural Revolution, Courtly Love to Survival of the Fittest, and Kants Enlightenment to the Oedipus Complex, here are the big ideas that have revolutionized our world.1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Thinkoffers a wealth of stimulation and amusement for any reader with a curious mind, showing how once-radical propositions have become accepted truths.Besides the great, eternal questions (how was the universe created and what is the place of humans within it? How should a person live? And how can we build a just society?),1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Thinkalso includes a host of hypotheses that are remarkable for their sheer audacityfrom the concept of the transmigration of souls to parallel universes and the theoretical paradoxes of time travel....