Genius: History of an Idea Hardback - 1991
by Penelope Murray
- New
- Hardcover
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- Title Genius: History of an Idea
- Author Penelope Murray
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Blackwell Publishers, U.S.A.
- Date 1991-01-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780631157854
- ISBN 9780631157854 / 0631157859
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.38 x 0.85 in (23.57 x 16.21 x 2.16 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Europe - Intellectual life, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88-35122
- Dewey Decimal Code 153.98
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From the rear cover
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.