Chaplin J.E., McMahon D.M. (eds.) Genealogies of Genius

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 203 p.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.The Problem of Genius in the Age of Slavery
Genius versus Democracy: Excellence and Singularity in Postrevolutionary France
Equality, Inequality, and Difference: Genius as Problem and Possibility in American Political/Scientific Discourse
Genius and Obsession: Do You Have to Be Mad to Be Smart?
Inspiration to Perspiration: Francis Galton’s Hereditary Genius in Victorian Context
“Genius Must Do the Scullery Work of the World”: New Women, Feminists, and Genius, circa 1880–1920
The Cult of the Genius in Germany and Austria at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Cultivating Genius in a Bolshevik Country
Insight in the Age of Automation
Genius and Evil