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Download or read book Think Like a Genius written by Todd Siler and published by Bantam Dell Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how to ignite innate creativity and free thought processes through the discovery of hidden connections among familiar things
Book Synopsis Kant's Concept of Genius by : Paul W. Bruno
Download or read book Kant's Concept of Genius written by Paul W. Bruno and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many studies have chronicled the Romantic legacy of artistic genius, this book uncovers the roots of the concept of genius in Kant's third Critique, alongside the development of his understanding of nature. Paul Bruno addresses a genuine gap in the existing scholarship by exploring the origins of Kant's thought on aesthetic judgment and particularly the artist. The development of the word 'genius' and its intimate association with the artist played itself out in a rich cultural context, a context that is inescapably significant in Western thought. Bruno shows how in many ways we are still interrogating the ways in which a nature governed by physical laws can be reconciled with a spirit of human creativity and freedom. This book leads us to a better understanding of the centrality of understanding the modern artistic enterprise, characterized as it is by creativity, for modern conceptions of the self.
Book Synopsis The Genius of Democracy by : Victoria Olwell
Download or read book The Genius of Democracy written by Victoria Olwell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States, ideas of genius did more than define artistic and intellectual originality. They also provided a means for conceptualizing women's participation in a democracy that marginalized them. Widely distributed across print media but reaching their fullest development in literary fiction, tropes of female genius figured types of subjectivity and forms of collective experience that were capable of overcoming the existing constraints on political life. The connections between genius, gender, and citizenship were important not only to contests over such practical goals as women's suffrage but also to those over national membership, cultural identity, and means of political transformation more generally. In The Genius of Democracy Victoria Olwell uncovers the political uses of genius, challenging our dominant narratives of gendered citizenship. She shows how American fiction catalyzed political models of female genius, especially in the work of Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Hunter Austin, Jessie Fauset, and Gertrude Stein. From an American Romanticism that saw genius as the ability to mediate individual desire and collective purpose to later scientific paradigms that understood it as a pathological individual deviation that nevertheless produced cultural progress, ideas of genius provided a rich language for contests over women's citizenship. Feminist narratives of female genius projected desires for a modern public life open to new participants and new kinds of collaboration, even as philosophical and scientific ideas of intelligence and creativity could often disclose troubling and more regressive dimensions. Elucidating how ideas of genius facilitated debates about political agency, gendered identity, the nature of consciousness, intellectual property, race, and national culture, Olwell reveals oppositional ways of imagining women's citizenship, ways that were critical of the conceptual limits of American democracy as usual.
Book Synopsis The Coffin of James Genius by : Jeff Petrill
Download or read book The Coffin of James Genius written by Jeff Petrill and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Genius is a traveler hiding a secret. While trying to fit into a community that thrives off death, James begins building a new life that quickly turns into a personal hell in futuristic America. A new Civil War brews in America while James simultaneously fights his own internal demons and hallucinations as he attempts to locate the survivors of his hidden family. While the government promises to protect and separate citizens from one another, obsessive political control and suspicious behavior begins to confuse and upset the public. As a result, survival groups start preparing for the collapse of the government while a news organization, The Zoo Trials, tries to explain and solve the country's seemingly inevitable demise. James holds the key to a major change, but in a futile attempt to protect himself, he pretends he doesn't recall his past. Meanwhile, others encourage James to reveal his true self, but he waits for the right moment to fuel his transformation. Only time will tell if James finds the real life he's been desperately seeking and if the citizens of this revolutionary community will pull together and plant the seeds of positive change.
Download or read book A Woman of Genius written by Mary Austin and published by McClelland & Goodchild, [191-?]. This book was released on 1917 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based directly on Austin's own life and experiences as a talented woman--an actress, whose pursuit of a career creates difficulty with the values of a midwestern town.
Book Synopsis Genealogies of Genius by : Joyce E. Chaplin
Download or read book Genealogies of Genius written by Joyce E. Chaplin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 performed specific cultural work within each of the societies in which it had a historical presence.
Download or read book Dancing Genius written by Hanna Järvinen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the historical figure of Vaslav Nijinsky in contemporary documents and later reminiscences, Dancing Genius opens up questions about authorship in dance, about critical evaluation of performance practice, and the manner in which past events are turned into history.
Book Synopsis Zoe; a girl of genius by : baroness Beatrice Violet Greville
Download or read book Zoe; a girl of genius written by baroness Beatrice Violet Greville and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Commerce and Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ohio State University Bulletin by : Ohio State University
Download or read book The Ohio State University Bulletin written by Ohio State University and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis AAUP Bulletin by : American Association of University Professors
Download or read book AAUP Bulletin written by American Association of University Professors and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hereditary Genius by : Francis Galton
Download or read book Hereditary Genius written by Francis Galton and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Genius in the Design by : Jake Morrissey
Download or read book The Genius in the Design written by Jake Morrissey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The remarkable story of the two seventeenth-century geniuses. . . . A highly successful double biography.” —Booklist The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter’s in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by designing some of the most beautiful buildings in the world, and ended their lives as bitter enemies. Engrossing and impeccably researched, full of dramatic tension and breathtaking insight, The Genius in the Design is the remarkable tale of how two extraordinary visionaries schemed and maneuvered to get the better of each other and, in the process, created the spectacular Roman cityscape of today. “Entertaining. . . . Morrissey finely renders the intense rivalry between these two artists.” —Publishers Weekly “With clear prose and splendid touches of drama, history and architecture are both brought wonderfully to life.” —Ross King, New York Times bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling “Engrossing.” —Matthew Pearl, of The Dante Club “Genius in the Design reveals the dark side of 17th Century Italy with sparkling anecdotes and you-are-there immediacy” —Laurence Bergreen, author of Over the Edge of the World “Fascinating . . . a scintillating introduction to the Baroque.” —Iain Pears, New York Times bestselling author An Instance of the Fingerpost “Page-turning reading.” —Seattle Times Book Review “Morrissey illuminates the contrast between the celebrated Bernini and the anguished Borromini.” —Boston Globe
Book Synopsis Recycling Projects for the Evil Genius by : Russel Gehrke
Download or read book Recycling Projects for the Evil Genius written by Russel Gehrke and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have some thoroughly green evil fun! This wickedly inventive guide explains how to create a variety of practical, environmentally friendly items you can use for yourself or resell for profit. Recycling Projects for the Evil Genius is filled with detailed directions on how to successfully complete each green project and discusses important safety issues. Using easy-to-find components and tools, this do-it-yourself book shows you how to brew up green cleaners, transform all types of paper into building materials, safety rid your home and yard of pests, and much more--all on the cheap! Recycling Projects for the Evil Genius: Features step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations Covers essential safety measures Reveals the scientific principles behind the projects Removes the frustration factor--all required parts are listed, along with sources Make your own green: Household cleaners Laundry soap Citrus oil extract Pest and weed control solutions Recycled plastic lumber and landscape blocks Recycled asphalt shingle paver bricks and road patch compound Concrete paper mache blocks, garden walls, stepping stones, and structures Solar-powered composter Garden-friendly charcoal And more Each fun, inexpensive, and slightly wicked Evil Genius project includes a detailed list of materials, sources for parts, schematics, and lots of clear, well-illustrated instructions for easy assembly. The larger workbook-style layout and convenient two-column format make following the step-by-step instructions a breeze.
Book Synopsis Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by : American Society for Psychical Research
Download or read book Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research written by American Society for Psychical Research and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 1, 6, 12.
Book Synopsis A Window in Thrums by : James Matthew Barrie
Download or read book A Window in Thrums written by James Matthew Barrie and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Genius Checklist by : Dean Keith Simonton
Download or read book The Genius Checklist written by Dean Keith Simonton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients. What does it take to be a genius? A high score on an IQ test? Brilliant physicist Richard Feynman's IQ was too low for membership in Mensa. Suffering from varying degrees of mental illness? Creativity is often considered a marker of mental health. Be a child prodigy like Mozart, or a later bloomer like Beethoven? Die tragically young, like Keats, or live to a ripe old age like Goethe? In The Genius Checklist, Dean Keith Simonton examines the key factors in creative genius and finds that they are more than a little contradictory. Simonton, who has studied creativity and genius for more than four decades, draws on both scientific research and stories from the lives of famous creative geniuses that range from Isaac Newton to Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf. He explains the origin of IQ tests and the art of estimating the IQ of long-dead historical figures (John Stuart Mill: 200; Charles Darwin: 160). He compares IQ scores with achieved eminence as measures of genius, and he draws a distinction between artistic and scientific genius. He rules out birth order as a determining factor (in the James family alone, three geniuses at three different birth-order positions: William James, firs-tborn; Henry James, second born; Alice James, born fifth and last); considers Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule; and describes how the “lone” genius gets enmeshed in social networks. Genius, Simonton explains, operates in ways so subtle that they seem contradictory. Genius is born and made, the domain of child prodigies and their elders. Simonton's checklist gives us a new, integrative way to understand geniuses—and perhaps even to nurture your own genius!
