The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940How have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential? In this wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuries, John Carson tells the fascinating story of how two nations wrestled scientifically with human inequalities and their social and political implications. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
MENTAL ABILITIES AND REPUBLICAN CULTURES | 9 |
The most precious gift of nature Natural Aristocracy Republican Polities and the Meanings of Talent | 11 |
Mental Capacities and Orthodox Minds Mental Science Education and the Politics of Individual Difference | 38 |
All Men Are Created Equal? Anthropology Intelligence and the Science of Race | 75 |
INDIVIDUALIZING INTELLIGENCE THROUGH THE SCIENCE OF DIFFERENCE | 111 |
Between the Art of the Clinic and the Precision of the Laboratory Individual Intelligence and the Science of Difference in Third Republic France | 113 |
American Psychology and the Seductions of IQ | 159 |
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The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French ... John Carson Limited preview - 2018 |
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