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1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
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Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The 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 Köhne -- Cultivating genius in a Bolshevik country / Irina Sirotkina -- Insight in the age of automation / David Bates -- Genius and evil / Darrin M. McMahon. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Genius -- History.
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Genius. |
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History. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology. |
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
McMahon, Darrin M., editor.
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Chaplin, Joyce E., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Genealogies of Genius. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 9781137497659 1137497653 (DLC) 2015019296 (OCoLC)917340082 |
| ISBN |
9781137497673 (electronic book) |
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113749767X (electronic book) |
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1137497645 |
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9781137497642 |
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9781137497659 |
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1137497653 |
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9781137497642 |
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1137497645 |
| Standard No. |
9781137497642 |
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