アイデアの歴史

Didn't expect a book about ideas to be this readable, but the chapters are short enough to finish one on a commute. What I like most is how it pulls ideas from completely different eras and places and puts them side by side, so you start noticing connections you'd never have seen otherwise.

I was skeptical that a book spanning all of human thought could feel cohesive, but the way it threads concepts across time and space genuinely changed how I see the present. Reading about how an idea born in one era gets reborn in another is oddly thrilling.

It’s rare for a book to make me feel like I’m having a conversation with every era at once, but this collection pulls it off beautifully. The way it connects ideas across centuries—showing how one thinker’s spark becomes another’s fire—kept me reaching for it every night. I’ve already dog-eared half