Genealogies of Genius [electronic resource] / edited by Joyce E. Chaplin, Darrin M. McMahon.

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Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual HistoryPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Description: IX, 191 p. online resourceContent type:

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9781137497673

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In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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.

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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.