04061nam 22007335 450 991025478980332120200703100609.01-137-49767-X10.1057/9781137497673(CKB)4340000000001620(EBL)4427324(SSID)ssj0001624619(PQKBManifestationID)16361797(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001624619(PQKBWorkID)14789362(PQKB)10170185(DE-He213)978-1-137-49767-3(MiAaPQ)EBC4427324(EXLCZ)99434000000000162020160226d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGenealogies of Genius /edited by Joyce E. Chaplin, Darrin M. McMahon1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (194 p.)Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual HistoryIncludes index.1-137-49765-3 1-137-49764-5 Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; 2 The Problem of Genius in the Age of Slavery; 3 Genius versus Democracy: Excellence and Singularity in Postrevolutionary France; 4 Equality, Inequality, and Difference: Genius as Problem and Possibility in American Political/Scientific Discourse; 5 Genius and Obsession: Do You Have to Be Mad to Be Smart?; 6 Inspiration to Perspiration: Francis Galton's Hereditary Genius in Victorian Context; 7 "Genius Must Do the Scullery Work of the World": New Women, Feminists, and Genius, circa 1880-19208 The Cult of the Genius in Germany and Austria at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century9 Cultivating Genius in a Bolshevik Country; 10 Insight in the Age of Automation; 11 Genius and Evil; List of Contributors; IndexThe essays in this volume seek to examine the uses to which concepts of genius have been put in different cultures and times. Collectively, they are designed to make two new statements. First, seen in historical and comparative perspective, genius is not a natural fact and universal human constant that has been only recently 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.Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual HistoryWorld historyCivilization—HistoryHistory, ModernSocial historyIntellectual life—HistoryWorld History, Global and Transnational Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/719000Cultural Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/723000Modern Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/713000Social Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000Intellectual Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/729000World history.Civilization—History.History, Modern.Social history.Intellectual life—History.World History, Global and Transnational History.Cultural History.Modern History.Social History.Intellectual Studies.500Chaplin Joyce Eedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtMcMahon Darrin Medthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910254789803321Genealogies of Genius1971483UNINA