The outlook for intelligence
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Type of record: Book
Title: The outlook for intelligence
Other titles: Essays
Classmark: BC Read D816
Creator(s): Valéry, Paul (1871-1945)
Additional creator(s): Folliot, Denise (Other); Mathews, Jackson (Other); Bollingen Foundation Collection (Library of Congress) (Other)
Related people: Folliot, Denise; Mathews, Jackson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication city: Princeton, N.J
Date(s): [1989], c1962
Language: English
Size and medium: xviii, 240 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/326978
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001698309705181
Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection
Description
Translations from the French of 12 essays originally published separately.
"First Princeton/Bollingen paperback printing, 1989... Originally published in 1962 as part I of History and politics, which is volume ten of the Collected works of Paul Valéry"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-230) and index.
Foreword (1931) -- The crisis of the mind (1919) -- A fond note on myth (1928) -- A conquest by method (1897) -- Unpredictability (1944) -- Remarks on intelligence (1925) -- Politics of the mind (1932) -- On history (1931) --Historical fact (1932) -- The outlook for intelligence (1935) -- Remarks on progress (1929) -- Our destiny and literature (1937) -- Freedom of the mind (1939).
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