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Anton Blok Radical Innovators (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Radical Innovators : the Blessings of Adversity in Science and Art, 1500-2000
- Publication Name
- Radical Innovators
- Title
- Radical Innovators
- Subtitle
- The Blessings of Adversity in Science and Art, 1500-2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9781509505517
- ISBN
- 9781509505517
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Genre
- Art, Science, Social Science
- Topic
- Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History, Anthropology / General, History / General
- Release Date
- 25/11/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 18.4 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Number of Pages
- 300 Pages
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In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art over the past five centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success. Through a collective biography of some ninety radical innovators, including Erasmus, Spinoza, Newton, Bach, Sade, Darwin, Melville, Mendel, Cézanne, Curie, Br'ncusi, 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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Publisher
Polity Press
ISBN-10
1509505512
ISBN-13
9781509505517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
227770853
Product Key Features
Book Title
Radical Innovators : the Blessings of Adversity in Science and Art, 1500-2000
Number of Pages
300 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History, Anthropology / General, History / General
Genre
Art, Science, Social Science
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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Dewey Edition
23
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Theories of innovation may seem to be a monopoly of economists, but Anton Blok, an anthropologist who has studied history and is interested in psychology, has produced a new and powerful answer to the questions, Who becomes an innovator? And what drives them? Peter Burke, University of Cambridge Anton Blok has solved the riddle of genius. What does it take to become a radical innovator in art or science? Childhood adversity and the attendant social exclusion, early and complete concentration in a chosen field, and a lifelong, total devotion to the self-imposed task. One can only wonder what youthful fate and adult commitment enabled Blok to achieve his radically innovative account of artistic and scientific creativity in this highly readable book. Abram de Swaan, University of Amsterdam, ÂTheories of innovation may seem to be a monopoly of economists, but Anton Blok, an anthropologist who has studied history and is interested in psychology, has produced a new and powerful answer to the questions, Who becomes an innovator? And what drives them? Peter Burke, University of Cambridge ÂAnton Blok has solved the riddle of genius. What does it take to become a Âradical innovator in art or science? Childhood adversity and the attendant social exclusion, early and complete concentration in a chosen field, and a lifelong, total devotion to the self-imposed task. One can only wonder what youthful fate and adult commitment enabled Blok to achieve his radically innovative account of artistic and scientific creativity in this highly readable book. Abram de Swaan, University of Amsterdam
Lccn
2016-016765
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
509/.03
Lc Classification Number
Q125.B582713 2016
Table of Content
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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2017
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