Radical Innovators: The Blessings of Adversity in Science and Art, 1500-2000
Language: English
Published by Polity, 2017
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Amnesty Bookshop, Bristol, Bristol, United KingdomAmnesty Bookshop, Bristol
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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In a soft cover with yellow and grey titles to spine and front and a colour illustration to front. 235 pp. The book is in near fine condition. There is a trace of shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover. The binding is tight. There is a little light marking to the fore edge, otherwise the pages are clean and unmarked.
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- Title
- Radical Innovators: The Blessings of Adversity in Science and Art, 1500-2000
- Author
- Blok, Anton
- Publisher
- Polity
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1509505520
- ISBN 13
- 9781509505524
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 363 grams
- Dimensions
- 152.4 millimeters width by 226.1 millimeters height by 22.9 millimeters depth
Through a collective biography of some ninety radical innovators, including Erasmus, Spinoza, Newton, Bach, Sade, Darwin, Melville, Mendel, Cézanne, Curie, Brâncusi, Einstein, Wittgenstein, Keynes, and Goodall, Blok shows how a significant proportion in fact benefited from social exclusion. Beethoven’s increasing deafness isolated him from his friends, creating more time for composing and experimenting, while Darwin’s chronic illness gave him an excuse to avoid social gatherings and get on with his work.
Adversity took various forms, including illegitimate birth, early parental loss, conflict with parents, bankruptcy, chronic illness, physical deficiencies, neurological and genetic disorders, minority status, peripheral origins, poverty, exile, and detention. Blok argues, however, that all these misfortunes had the same effect: alienation from mainstream society. As outsiders, innovators could question conventional beliefs and practices. With little to lose, they could take chances and exploit opportunities.
With governments, universities and industry all emphasizing the importance of investing in innovation, typically understood to mean planned and focussed research teams, this book runs counter to conventional wisdom. For far more often, radical innovation in science and art is entirely unscripted, resulting from trial and error by individuals ready to take risks, fail, and start again.
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