Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 561 g
The History of an Idea
Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 561 g
ISBN: 978-0-631-15785-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
This book explores the history of the idea of genius from its origins in classical antiquity to its deconstruction in postmodernist criticism. Focusing mainly on the creative arts, the book examines certain key points in the development of the idea, and also addresses the problem of what constitutes genius in specific subject areas. Experts in different fields have contributed chapters on literature, art, music, mathematics, philosophy and psychiatry to produce a volume which illuminates an abiding obsession throughout the history of European culture.
The contributors to this volume show how the ancient image of the inspired poet and the Renaissance conception of the divino artista both anticipate later notions of genius, developed into the 18th century around the central figures of Homer, Shakespeare and Goethe. Romantic definitions of genius are analysed, as are the implications of Nietzsche's pronouncements on 'human greatness'. The historic conjunction of genius and madness is explored from the early belief in divine possession through the Renaissance notion of melancholy to the age of psychoanalysis.
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Poetic genius and its classical origins / Penelope Murray
The "super-artist" as genius: the sixteenth-century view / Martin Kemp
The second Homeric Renaissance: allegoresis and genius in early modern poetics / Glenn Most
Shakespeare and original genius / Jonathan Bate
Goethe on genius / Michael Beddow
The emptiness of genius: aspects of Romanticism / Drummond Bone
Nietzsche on genius / Michael Tanner
Deconstructing genius: Paul de Man and the critique of Romantic ideology / Christopher Norris
What is musical genius? / Wilfrid Mellers
Genius in mathematics / Clive Kilmister
Genius and mental disorder: a history of ideas concerning their conjunction / Neil Kessel
Genius and psychoanalysis: Freud, Jung and the concept of personality / Anthony Storr
