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The outlook for intelligence / Paul Valéry ; translated by Denise Folliot and Jackson Mathews ; with a preface by François Valéry.

Title
The outlook for intelligence / Paul Valéry ; translated by Denise Folliot and Jackson Mathews ; with a preface by François Valéry.
Author
Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1989], c1962.

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Additional Authors
  • Folliot, Denise.
  • Mathews, Jackson.
Description
xviii, 240 p.; 20 cm.
Series Statement
  • Bollingen series ; 45
  • Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945. Works. English. 1989 ; v. 10.
Uniform Title
  • Essays. Selections. English
  • Bollingen series ; 45.
Alternative Title
Essays.
Subject
  • Civilization, Modern > 20th century
  • Intellectual life
Note
  • 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"--Verso of t.p.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-230) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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).
ISBN
0691018812 :
LCCN
^^^89003802^//r91
OCLC
  • 19392683
  • SCSB-11186998
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library