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Into the Open: Reflections on Genius: By Benjamin Taylor
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- 9780814782132
- Publication Year
- 1995
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Into the Open : Reflections on Genius and Modernity
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Into the Open is a philosophical and literary inquiry into the deeper meanings of genius. What precisely do we mean when we describe someone this way? What legacy do we invoke when we apply this term? To address this question, Benjamin Taylor here explores how three great minds--Walter Pater, Paul Valry, and Sigmund Freud--viewed a figure widely considered the first great modern genius, Leonardo da Vinci. For each of these great thinkers, Da Vinci is of central importance because for each the received idea of genius has ceased to be a romantic certitude or sacred truth and has become a problem.Invoking Nietzsche's drastic critique of genius, Taylor assesses the less programmatic and more anxious cases of Pater, Valry, and Freud. Whereas Nietzsche sought for and found an escape from romantic humanism, Pater, Valry, and Freud cannot relinquish the idea of genius and serve as troubled witnesses to the dilemma posed by the notion of genius. A myth of genius has been our way of making good the losses romantic modernity entails, Taylor writes, A myth of genius has existed to affirm that, among human lives, some have sacramental shape; that, among human lives, some put into abeyance the equation between life and loss. Such is the post-theological, post-metaphysical role into which we have compelled our geniuses. They make for us one last claim on the sublime. A shift away from the special pleading that has lately plagued literary studies, Taylor's unfazed humanism reasserts the timeless standards of substantiveness, clarity, and grace.
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New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814782132
ISBN-13
9780814782132
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Into the Open : Reflections on Genius and Modernity
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
160 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
100.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bf416.A1t38 1995
Copyright Date
1995
Topic
European / French, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Lccn
94-041349
Dewey Decimal
153.9/8
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
20
Genre
Psychology, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Political Science
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