Opening book details…
Can I read Genealogies of Genius (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History) on EtoBox?
Genealogies of Genius (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History) by Joyce E. Chaplin, Darrin M. McMahon (eds.) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Genealogies of Genius (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History) about?
The essays in this volume seek to examine the uses to which concepts of genius have been put in different cultures and times. Collectively, they are designed to make two new statements. First, seen in historical and comparative perspective, genius is not a natural fact and universal human constant that has been only recently identified by modern science, but instead a categorical mode of assessing human ability and merit. Second, as a concept with specific definitions and resonances, genius has
Who reads Genealogies of Genius (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Joyce E. Chaplin, Darrin M. McMahon (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781137497673
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Psychology, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
More by Joyce E. Chaplin, Darrin M. McMahon (eds.)
Browse all works by Joyce E. Chaplin, Darrin M. McMahon (eds.)
Similar books
- Sir John Malcolm and the Creation of British India (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History) — Jack Harrington (auth.) (2010)
- Making British Indian Fictions: 1772-1823 (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History) — Ashok Malhotra (auth.) (2012)
- History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History) — Barbara Taylor Sally Alexander (2012)
- The Uses of Space in Early Modern History (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History) — Paul Stock (2015)
- Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History) — Lynn Zastoupil (2010)
- Carl Gustav Jung: Avant-Garde Conservative (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History) — Jay Sherry (auth.) (2010)