… discovery apart from invention (Miller; Watson). In an often-quoted paragraph, Francis
Bacon would assert, “The invention of speech or argument is not properly an invention: for to …

… “Invention” plays a central role in Rae’s argument. He … He concluded: “Invention is the only
power on earth that can be … he saw no limit to the scope for invention, the first to foresee an …

The nations of Latin America came into being without a strong sense of national purpose
and identity. In The Invention of Argentina, Nicholas Shumway offers a cultural history of one …

The publication of these parts of a fundamental book on representations of Africa, drawing
on the analyses of a set of knowledges and discourses-from travel narratives or missionary …

This paper argues that many new production techniques have been developed by a process
called ‘collective invention’. When firms collectively invent, they make available to their …

… Art as we have generally understood it is a European invention barely two hundred years
old. It was preceded by a broader, more utilitarian system of art that lasted over two thousand …

There is now an extensive literature on the idea and reality of the nation-nationality-nationalism,
most of it the product of the last three decades. To date, the notion and phenomenon of …

… Likewise, in considering the question “Is corporate social responsibility an invention of PR?”,
perhaps we need the antennae of a Martian in order to appreciate some of the paradoxes. …

Nearly everyone believes, falsely, that technology is applied science. It is becoming so, and
rapidly, but through most of history science has arisen from problems posed for intellectual …