Guy G. Stroumsa

The End of Sacrifice Religious Changes in Late Antiquity

Bernard Poulain, Etienne Hirsch

Frontiers in the Neurosciences

Along with Étienne Hirsch and Bernard Poulain, thirty prestigious contributors present an assessment of what the neurosciences will be in twenty years.

Frédéric Lordon

The Politics of Capital

Jacques Lesourne

A Man of Our Time From the Ecole Polytechnique to Economic Forecasting and the newspaper Le Monde

Yves Ormezzano

A Guide to the Voice

Charles Goldfinger

The Useful and the Futile: The Immaterial Economy

Jacques Lesourne

The Future of Democracy, Markets and Governance

Howard Gardner

Creating Minds An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Grah

What is creativity? Do there exist psychological traits common to all creative geniuses? Can one characterize creativity in different forms and in different areas? It is impossible to respond to these questions without examining variegated and specific cases of creative genius: artistic, literary, scientific and even political. Thus, Gardner proposes seven psychobiographies characteristic of each type of genius: Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, T.S. Eliot, Martha Graham, and Gandhi. What were the different paths that they chose? How did their creative spirits work? Howard Gardner is a cognitive psychologist.