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Radical innovators: the blessings of adversity in science and art, 1500-2000

By Anton , Blok

Book information

Publisher
Polity Press
ISBN
9781509505555, 9781509505517, 1509505512, 9781509505524, 1509505520, 9781509505548
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1075125 bytes)
Pages
235 pages ; 23 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Anthropology;Art;Art and science;Art and science--

Description

Leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionised science and art over the past 5 centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success. Through a collective biography of some 90 radical innovators, including Erasmus, Spinoza, Newton, Bach, Sade, Darwin, Melville, Mendel, Cezanne, Curie, Brancusi, Einstein, Wittgenstein, Keynes and Goodall, Blok shows how a significant proportion in fact benefitted from social exclusion. Contents Foreword Chapter 1 The margins as a place of innovation Chapter 2 Sibling rivalry Chapter 3 Heuristic exceptions Chapter 4 Adversity Chapter 5 Chance and necessity Chapter 6 The periphery as a locus of innovation. Appendices Notes Bibliography Index of names Index of subjects

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