The outlook for intelligence
By: Paul Valéry ; translated by Denise Folliot and Jackson Mathews ; with a preface by François Valéry.
Contributors: Folliot, Denise.; Mathews, Jackson.; Bollingen Foundation Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Bollingen series ;; XLV, 10; The Collected works of Paul Valéry ;; v. 10
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.; Intellectual life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-230) and index.
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.
Source: Gift of Princeton University Press, Aug. 10, 1989.
Table of contents: title: Foreword (1931); title: The crisis of the mind (1919); title: A fond note on myth (1928); title: A conquest by method (1897); title: Unpredictability (1944); title: Remarks on intelligence (1925); title: Politics of the mind (1932); title: On history (1931); title: Historical fact (1932); title: The outlook for intelligence (1935); title: Remarks on progress (1929); title: Our destiny and literature (1937); title: Freedom of the mind (1939).