Inventing intelligence : a social history of smart
Paul Michael Privateer (Author)
What is intelligence? What makes humans homo sapiens - the intelligent species? Inventing Intelligence is a bold deconstruction of the history of intelligence, bringing a cultural studies approach to this fascinating subject for the first time.
History
VIII, 272 str. : ilustr. ; 24 cm
9781405112161, 9781405112178, 1405112166, 1405112174
441831127
Acknowledgements. Introduction: The World of Intelligence.. Part I: The Renaissance Economy of Intelligence. 1. The Pre-Renaissance Tradition of Intelligence. 2. The New Landscape of Smart. 3. The First Smart Economy. 4. Renaissance Intellectual Trends. 5. Renaissance Philosophy and Fabrications of Intelligence. 6. Smart Renaissance Science. 7. Profitable Knowledge and Intelligence Becomes a Career. 8. Intelligence and Dominant Renaissance Scientists.. Part II: Bright Lights, Fallen Apples, and Clinical Gazes: Intelligence and the Enlightenment. 9. Intelligence and the Enlightenment. 10. Illuminating Enlightenment Intelligence. 11. Enlightenment Insight: Fallen Apples, Social Mathematics and A New Intelligence. 12. The Clinical Gaze and Human Normalization.. Part III: Modern and Postmodern Intelligence: Smart Architects, Smart Tools, and Smart Critiques. 13. Smart Architects and Contemporary Intelligence. 14. Smart Tools and Modern Intelligence. 15. Smart Critiques: New Sciences and New Mathematics. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.