Genealogies of Genius (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137497659)

Vendor: Joyce E. Chaplin
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Genealogies of Genius

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Genealogies of Genius

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Format: Hardcover
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The 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.

Author: Joyce E. Chaplin
ISBN-10: 1137497653
ISBN-13: 9781137497659
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/07/2015
Pages: 191
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
By Joyce E. Chaplin
By Joyce E. Chaplin
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Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University, USA. She is the author of The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius and co-author of The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus.

Darrin M. McMahon is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College, USA. He is the author of Divine Fury: A History of Genius; Happiness: A History, and the co-editor of Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History.

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