The Geography of Intellect

by Nathaniel Weyl, Prof. Stefan T. Possony (Introduction)

Overview

Until the first publication of the Geography of Intellect in 1963, the study of human intelligence, its distribution and causes, had been confined to inaccessible scholars’ journals. With the publication of works by Carleton S. Coon, Ernst Mayr and others—dealing with the evolution of man and his various sub-groups—has grown a strong popular interest in the findings of anthropological science:

What has made man? Why do his civilizations rise and fall? How can we make certain that our current rate of material progress is maintained or increased, that we do not fall into the graveyard of civilizations wherein are buried Periclean Greece, Imperial Rome, Post-Inquisition Spain, Islamic civilization and the monstrous Nazi regime?

“No one can read Nathaniel Weyl without realizing the has is clearly a man of intellectual honesty, attempting to perform a signal service for us all.”—NATIONAL REVIEW

“So lucid and admirable a style”—NEW REPUBLIC

“Professor Possony is an admirable historian, and his book is a careful and well-documented account.”—THE ANNALS

“Dr. Possony—deeply steeped in general sociology—stands out among the younger historians whose work has commanded attention in Europe and in this country.”—THE NEW LEADER

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789122107
Publisher:	Muriwai Books
Publication date:	09/03/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	301
File size:	910 KB

About the Author

NATHANIEL WEYL (July 20, 1910 - April 13, 2005) was an American economist and author who wrote on a variety of social issues. He was a member of the Communist Party from 1933-1939 before becoming a conservative and anti-communist. Born in New York City, Weyl received his BSc degree from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1931. He undertook postgraduate work at the London School of Economics before working as a financial reporter for the New York Post. After leaving the Communist Party, Weyl moved to Washington and accepted a post as head of the Latin American research unit at the Federal Reserve Board, later moving to the Board of Economic Warfare. He served overseas in the Army for two years during WWII. After the war, he became a journalist and author, focussing on studies of communism, especially in Latin America; espionage and internal security in the U.S.; racial, ethnic and class analyses of societies; and the roles of political and intellectual elites.

STEFAN THOMAS POSSONY was an Austrian-born U.S. economist and military strategist who conceived the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative. He graduated in 1930 from the University of Vienna in History and Economics, and with a PhD in Political Science. He was employed by the Foreign ministry before fleeing to France in 1938, where he worked with the French Foreign Affairs Ministry as a counselor in Psychological Warfare. He was also active as a consultant with the French Armed Forces. He escaped to French Algeria in 1940 and from there to the USA, where he worked with U.S. Military Intelligence. He was appointed to a position at Princeton University and later became a professor at Georgetown University, whilst remaining a consultant to the Pentagon. He later worked at Stanford University, was a Senior Fellow and director of International Studies at the Hoover Institution, and became a co-founder of the International Strategic Studies Association in 1982.