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245 00 $aGenealogies of genius /$c[edited by] Joyce E. Chaplin and Darrin M. McMahon.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2015.
300 $apages cm.
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490 1 $aPalgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe problem of genius in the age of slavery / Joyce E. Chaplin -- Genius versus democracy : excellence and singularity in postrevolutionary France / Nathalie Heinich -- Equality, inequality, and difference : genius as problem and possibility in American political/scientific discourse / John Carson -- Genius and obsession : do you have to be mad to be smart? / Lennard J. Davis -- Inspiration to perspiration : Francis Galton's Hereditary genius in Victorian context / Janet Browne -- "Genius must do the scullery work of the world" : new women, feminists, and genius, circa 1880-1920 / Lucy Delap -- The cult of the genius in Germany and Austria at the dawn of the twentieth century / Julia Barbara Ko<U+00cc>℗hne -- Cultivating genius in a Bolshevik country / Irina Sirotkina -- Insight in the age of automation / David Bates -- Genius and evil / Darrin M. McMahon.
546 $aText in English.
520 $aThe essays in this volume examine the uses to which concepts of genius have been put in different cultures and times. Collectively, they make two new statements. First, seen in historical and comparative perspective, genius is not a natural fact and universal human constant that has only recently been identified by modern science, but instead a categorical mode of assessing human ability and merit. Second, as a concept with specific definitions and resonances, genius has performed specific cultural work within each of the societies in which it had a historical presence. -- from back cover.
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830 0 $aPalgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
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