عنوان

Human accomplishment :

0060929642

9780060929640

b731556

Human accomplishment :

[Book]

the pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 /

Charles Murray.

1st Perennial ed.

New York :

Perennial,

2004, ©2003.

xx, 668 pages :

illustrations, maps ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-638) and index.

A Sense of Accomplishment -- A Sense of Time -- A Sense of Mystery -- A Sense of Place -- A Sense of Wonder -- Identifying the People and Events That Matter -- Excellence and Its Identification -- The Lotka Curve -- The People Who Matter I: Significant Figures -- The People Who Matter II: The Giants -- The Events That Matter I: Significant Events -- The Events That Matter II: Meta-Inventions -- Patterns and Trajectories -- Coming to Terms with the Role of Modern Europe -- ... and of Dead White Males -- Concentrations of European and American Accomplishment -- Taking Population into Account: The Accomplishment Rate -- Explanations I: Peace and Prosperity -- Explanations II: Models, Elite Cities, and Freedom of Action -- What's Left to Explain? -- On the Origins and Decline of Accomplishment -- The Aristotelian Principle -- Sources of Energy: Purpose and Autonomy -- Sources of Content: The Organizing Structure and Transcendental Goods -- Is Accomplishment Declining? -- Summation -- Appendices -- Statistics for People Who Are Sure They Can't Learn Statistics -- Construction of the Inventories and the Eminence Index -- Inventory Sources -- Geographic and Population Data -- The Roster of the Significant Figures.

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"From the age of Homer to the present, bestselling author Charles Murray compiles inventories of the people who have been essential to the stories of literature, music, art, philosophy, and the sciences-a total of 4,002 men and women from around the world, ranked according to their eminence. The heart of Human Accomplishment is a series of enthralling descriptive chapters: on the giants in the arts and what sets them apart from the merely great; on the differences between great achievement in the arts and in the sciences; on the meta-inventions, 14 crucial leaps in human capacity to create great art and science; and on the patterns and trajectories of accomplishment across time and geography. In addition, Charles Murray takes on some controversial questions: Why has accomplishment been so concentrated in Europe? Among men? Since 1400? He presents evidence that the rate of great accomplishment has been declining in the last century, asks what it means, and offers a rich framework for thinking about the conditions under which the human spirit has expressed itself most gloriously. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Civilization-- History.

Genius, Case studies.

Gifted persons, Case studies.

History-- Psychological aspects.

Civilization.

Genius.

Gifted persons.

History-- Psychological aspects.

Murray, Charles A.

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