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The Man of Genius
by LOMBROSO, Cesare
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Glendale, California, United States
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About This Item
Publisher's red cloth. 8vo., xvi, 370 pp., including half-title plus 4 pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. Large folding map. Owner's name (Vance Thompson [1863-1925], American literary critic, novelist & poet on front free endpage. Marginalia and writing inside, spine darkened, light wear at the head of the spine, a very good copy. Lombroso believed that genius was closely related to madness, and his attempts to develop these notions while in Moscow and 1897 he traveled to Yasnaya Polyana to meet Leo Tolstoy, in hopes of elucidating and providing evidence of his theory of genius reverting, or degenerating into insanity. Lombroso argues that artistic genius was a form of hereditary insanity. In order to support this assertion, he began assembling a large collection of psychiatric art. He published an article on the subject in 1880 in which he isolated 13 typical features of the art of the insane, although his criteria are generally regarded as outdated today, his work inspired later writers on the subject such as Hans Prinzhorn & Max Nordau.
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- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 398
- Title
- The Man of Genius
- Author
- LOMBROSO, Cesare
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's red cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Walter Scott Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1891
- Pages
- 370
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Italian Literature, Philosophy, Sociology
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