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The imperative of genius / Kenneth Walden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walden, Kenneth, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--Psychology.
- Artists.
- Genius--Philosophy.
- Genius.
- Creative ability--Philosophy.
- Creative ability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Genius, it is widely supposed, is a relic. The concept may have been useful for our ancestors, but we are capable of a more enlightened understanding of how things come about. Unfortunately, this enlightenment has brought a sense of stagnation and malaise. This sense is not completely new, but if we want to overcome it, we must return to a more romantic conception of human nature. Such a conception would recognize genius as an essential human capacity: one that helps us answer the basic demands of our rational agency, not something possessed by a select few, but the common endowment of all human beings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 21, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-781092-6
- 0-19-781090-X
- 0-19-781091-8
- 9780197810903
- OCLC:
- 1547367858
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