{"product_id":"inventing-intelligence-9781405112161","title":"Inventing Intelligence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is intelligence? What makes humans \u003ci\u003eHomo\u003c\/i\u003e sapiens  the intelligent species?\u003ci\u003eInventing Intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold deconstruction of the history of intelligence. Uncoupling our understanding of this most familiar concept from its traditional social science moorings, this book trains a cultural studies lens on intelligence to expose it as yet another form of representation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInventing Intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e charts the history of intelligence from its earliest articulations through to postmodern AI. Individual chapters recount the loving spheres of divine intelligence imagined by Plato, the self-conscious stylings of the Renaissance Man, the politics of intelligence in the Enlightenment, as well as contemporary assessments of digital intelligence and the mysterious adventure of Einstein's brain. Ambitious in its historical sweep, unflinching in its challenge to conventional wisdom, \u003ci\u003eInventing Intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e is for everyone and anyone who used to think that the paramete\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] very interesting study.\" \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is an outstanding and welcome addition to the literature on the social and cultural significance of intelligence. The argument unfolds nicely and with excellent coverage of the relevant literature, issues, and problems.” \u003ci\u003eSal Restivo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The World of Intelligence.\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Renaissance Economy of Intelligence\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Pre-Renaissance Tradition of Intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The New Landscape of Smart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The First Smart Economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Renaissance Intellectual Trends.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Renaissance Philosophy and Fabrications of Intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Smart Renaissance Science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Profitable Knowledge and Intelligence Becomes a Career.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Intelligence and Dominant Renaissance Scientists.\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Bright Lights, Fallen Apples, and Clinical Gazes: Intelligence and the Enlightenment\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Intelligence and the Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Illuminating Enlightenment Intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Enlightenment Insight: Fallen Apples, Social Mathematics and A New Intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Clinical Gaze and Human Normalization.\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Modern and Postmodern Intelligence: Smart Architects, Smart Tools, and Smart Critiques\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Smart Architects and Contemporary Intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Smart Tools and Modern Intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Smart Critiques: New Sciences and New Mathematics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515722260823,"sku":"9781405112161","price":84.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/inventing-intelligence-9781405112161","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}