Chaplin, Joyce E.
Genealogies of Genius
1. Introduction
Joyce E. Chaplin, Darrin M. McMahon
2. The Problem of Genius in the Age of Slavery
Joyce E. Chaplin
3. Genius versus Democracy: Excellence and Singularity in Postrevolutionary France
Nathalie Heinich
4. Equality, Inequality, and Difference: Genius as Problem and Possibility in American Political/Scientific Discourse
John Carson
5. Genius and Obsession: Do You Have to Be Mad to Be Smart?
Lennard J. Davis
6. Inspiration to Perspiration: Francis Galton’s
Janet Browne
7. “Genius Must Do the Scullery Work of the World”: New Women, Feminists, and Genius, circa 1880–1920
Lucy Delap
8. The Cult of the Genius in Germany and Austria at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Julia Barbara Köhne
9. Cultivating Genius in a Bolshevik Country
Irina Sirotkina
10. Insight in the Age of Automation
David Bates
11. Genius and Evil
Darrin M. McMahon
- Editor
- Chaplin, Joyce E.
- McMahon, Darrin M.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
- Page amount
- 200 pages
- Categories
- Natural Sciences
- Technology, Energy, Traffic
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137497673
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-49764-2