Inventing intelligence [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of smart / / Paul Michael Privateer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143301603321
• Autore: Privateer Paul Michael <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
• ISBN: 1-280-28595-8; 9786610285952; 0-470-79700-2; 0-470-75484-2; 1-4051-5230-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Classificazione: 77.32
• Disciplina: 153.909
• Soggetti: Intellect - History; Intellect - Social aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-260) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Inventing Intelligence: A Social History of Smart; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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: From Montaigne to Hobbes; 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 Enlightenment9 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.