ABSTRACT
Transaction will have the privilege of publishing the last original work of Hans Eysenck- Intelligence, completed at the very edge of Hans' life. As one might expect, it is a work uncompromising in intellectual statement and pellucid in its formal design. For Hans, the study of intelligence was not a racial cap on achievement, but a rigorous assessment of what it takes to reach for the stars. Intelligence somehow conveyed the idea of a genetic inheritance, a position so badly discredited by the racial dogmas of the Nazis that the post-World War Two epoch led to a denial of genetics as such. Hans held to a lifelong struggle against totalitarianism of the Right and the Left, against Nazism and Communism. He had no preferences save those dictated by the quality of culture as such. He was a quintessential figure of the best the European culture could offer.
