The genius famine : why we need geniuses, why they're dying out, and why we must rescue them / Edward Dutton and Bruce G. Charlton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dutton, Edward, 1980- author.

Charlton, Bruce, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genius.

Gifted persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 222 pages)

Place of Publication:

Buckingham : The University of Buckingham Press, 2015.

Summary:

Geniuses are rare and exceptional people. The majority of the great ideas, discoveries and inventions of human history, which have allowed the development of civilization itself, were the products of geniuses. 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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789551488

178955148X