Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence

In The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence, Gino LaPaglia argues that Strategic Intelligence is a core dynamic of human rationality and that it has always been foundational for creating meaning in society. For thousands of years the identity of the heroic strategist has provided hope for human life lived in extremis.

List of contents

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Translation, Conventions, Abbreviations
1 Cultural Genealogy: Theory and Method
2 Greco-Roman Strategic Intelligence: Strategic Heroes, Gods and Men
3 Greco-Roman Strategic Intelligence: Beasts and Philosophers
4 The Legacy of Judeo-Christian Strategic Intelligence
5 The Patrimony of Medieval & Renaissance Strategic Intelligence
6 Toward a Cultural Genealogy of Chinese Strategic Intelligence
7 The Endowment of Chinese Strategic Intelligence: Strategic Officialdom
8 Thick Black Theory ¿¿¿: Annotated Translation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Gino LaPaglia is a Washington D.C.-based scholar - practitioner with a doctorate from Georgetown University and expertise in East Asian Affairs and Cultural Studies.

Summary

In The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence, Gino LaPaglia argues that Strategic Intelligence is a core dynamic of human rationality and that it has always been foundational for creating meaning in society. For thousands of years the identity of the heroic strategist has provided hope for human life lived in extremis.

Product details

• Authors: Gino LaPaglia
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498588317
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8831-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Philosophy and Cultural Identity; Philosophy and Cultural Identi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / World, Philosophy, International Relations, PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics, General & world history, Translation & interpretation, Topics in philosophy