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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