1 ‘ ‘ - 1 1 ! 1 J: • V : - ■ i ' Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/greatnesswhomakeOOOOsimo GREATNESS Who Makes History and Why GREATNESS Who Makes History and Why Dean Keith Simonton University of California at Davis THE GUILFORD PRESS New York London © 1994 The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher. Printed in the United States of America This book is printed on acid-free paper. Last digit is print number: 98765432 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Simonton, Dean Keith. Greatness: who makes history and why / Dean Keith Simonton. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-89862-370-7 — ISBN 0-89862-201-8 (pbk.) 1. Genius—History. 2. Genius—Philosophy. 3. History- Philosophy. 4. History—Psychological aspects. I. Title. BF412.S56 1994 93-48127 153.9-8—dc20 CIP Per festeggiare il sovvenire di un grand Uomo * ““To celebrate the memory of a great man”—If I may borrow Beethoven’s dedica¬ tion to his Sinfonia Eroica (1804). The “great man” referred to was Napoleon, but could here point to all men and women who have attained greatness, including Beethoven him¬ self.