The Genius Famine: Why We Need Geniuses, Why They're Dying Out, Why We Must Rescue Them - Softcover

Dutton, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908684607 ISBN 13: 9781908684608

Publisher: University of Buckingham Press, 2016

Synopsis

We live in a society where, for whatever reason, genius tends to be unacknowledged, denied, ignored or even (usually for 'politically correct' reasons) actively persecuted. For the past four hundred years, geniuses have been common to all the major humanities and sciences, art, literature, medicine, law, politics, the military and religion - yet today they have almost disappeared.

A genius combines extremely high intelligence with an unworldly, intuitive personality. Geniuses will seldom fit into normal society; they will seldom want to. Nor should they, since it is their unusual and socially-difficult nature which drives geniuses to come up with original ideas, make breakthrough discoveries or solve unyielding problems by intuitive insight.

But modern society has been hit by a genius famine. There are ever fewer geniuses and modern society has become actively hostile to those we still have. The Genius Famine explores the nature of genius, why the genius famine has happened, how it threatens civilization and what we can and should do to overcome it.

About this title

About the Author:

Edward Dutton is Adjunct Professor of the Anthropology of Religion at Oulu University in Finland and an independent scholar. Bruce Charlton is Visiting Professor of Theoretical Medicine at the University of Buckingham and Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry at Newcastle University and author of Thought Prison: The Fundamental Nature of Political Correctness, Addicted to Distraction: Psychological consequences of the modern Mass Media and Not Even Trying: The Corruption of Real Science.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Buckingham Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1908684607
• ISBN 13: 9781908684608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232