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THE GENIUS FAMINE
WHY WE NEED GENIUSES, WHY THEY'RE DYING OUT, WHY WE MUST RESCUE THEM |
| By: |
Edward Dutton, Bruce G. Charlton |
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Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1908684607 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781908684608 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 January, 2016 |
| Pages: |
232 |
| Description: |
Genius today is almost discouraged. For centuries geniuses have contributed to all major facets of civilisation - art, literature, science, medicine, law, politics - yet today have almost disappeared. This book explores the nature of genius, why there is a genius famine, how that threatens civilization, and what we should do to overcome it. |
| Synopsis: |
Geniuses are rare and exceptional people; but the great ideas, discoveries and inventions of human history, which have allowed the development of civilization itself, were the products of geniuses. The Genius Famine finds that a genius combines extremely high intelligence with a unworldly, intuitive personality. Geniuses will seldom fit-into normal society, they will seldom want to. And we shouldn t want them to, because it is their unusual and socially-difficult nature which drives geniuses to come up with original ideas, and solutions to otherwise unsolvable problems. But modern society has been hit by a genius famine. There are ever-fewer geniuses and, to make matters worse, modern society has become actively hostile to those few geniuses we still have. The Genius Famine explores the nature of genius, why the genius famine has happened, how the famine will lead to the decline of civilization, and what we can and should do to overcome it." |
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UK |
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The University of Buckingham Press |
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Returnable |
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