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Genealogies of Genius

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Genius as a historical concept, rather than as a presumed trans-historical fact, is surprisingly underexamined, even as millions of daily decisions personal, institutional, and governmental are made according to unexamined assumptions about it. The essays in this book show that the origins and uses of concepts of genius warrant careful examination.

Author(s): Joyce E. Chaplin, Darrin M. McMahon (eds.)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2016

Language: English
Pages: 192
Tags: Science, general

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-10
The Problem of Genius in the Age of Slavery....Pages 11-28
Genius versus Democracy: Excellence and Singularity in Postrevolutionary France....Pages 29-41
Equality, Inequality, and Difference: Genius as Problem and Possibility in American Political/Scientific Discourse....Pages 43-62
Genius and Obsession: Do You Have to Be Mad to Be Smart?....Pages 63-75
Inspiration to Perspiration: Francis Galton’s Hereditary Genius in Victorian Context....Pages 77-95
“Genius Must Do the Scullery Work of the World”: New Women, Feminists, and Genius, circa 1880–1920....Pages 97-113
The Cult of the Genius in Germany and Austria at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century....Pages 115-135
Cultivating Genius in a Bolshevik Country....Pages 137-151
Insight in the Age of Automation....Pages 153-169
Genius and Evil....Pages 171-182
Back Matter....Pages 183-191