Michael J A. Howe. Genius Explained...
Michael J A. Howe. Genius Explained. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1999 221 pp ISBN 0-521-64018-0 $5495 GENIUS EXPLAINED? RECRUITING THEORY IN THE SEARCH FOR MISSING KNOWLEDGE Michael J A. Howe's part Genius Explained, has two primary goals. The first is to deconstruct the popular notion of "genius." "Genius," for Howe, is not a statement about a person's qualities (11) The notion of genius as inherent quality be seens to perpetuate itself through the metaphors implicit in our everyday discourse. For example, consider idioms like as "wasted ...
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