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Author : William Hirsch
language : en
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Release Date : 1896
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Author : William Hirsch
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Author : William Hirsch
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
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Genius and Degeneration is a thought-provoking book that explores the complex relationship between creativity and mental illness. William Hirsch delves into the lives of genius artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Allan Poe, and Sylvia Plath, and examines how their mental states influenced their work. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the intersections between art, psychology, and neuroscience. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Author : William Hirsch
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Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-12
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A review from Public Opinion: A Comprehensive Summary of the Press Throughout the World, Volume 21: DR. HIRSCH'S opening chapter defines, so far as definable, the limits of insanity, for the purposes of showing that in order to determine the state of mental sanity or insanity, it does not suffice to produce absurd modes of behavior or extraordinary temper. As we can hardly pronounce a man to lie insane from any conduct until we know what his motives are, we ought not judge from a part, but from the whole of his mental condition. Hence, so far as single conditions go, no sharp line of demarcation can be drawn between mental sanity and insanity. Then follows an attempt to define genius. Dr. Hirsch objects to the definition that genius and talent are merely different degrees of the same quality, on the ground that it would leave the word genius of little value as a psychological term, and finally arrives at the conclusion that the word really has no psychological meaning. Undoubtedly all men of genius have common traits, but they are not traits characteristic of genius; they are such as are possessed by other men and more or less by all men. Having come to the conclusion that the designation "genius" does not designate anyone psychological concept, and also that insanity is equally indefinable, Dr. Hirsch attempts to compare two such indefinable quantities. Quoting approvingly Claude Bernard's opinion that between any form of disease and health there are only differences of degree, and that no disease is anything more than an exaggeration or disproportion of normal phenomena, he adds that this is true of all diseases, whether they be of corporeal or mental origin. Hence the decision whether anything is to be considered as a disease or not cannot be made to depend on how far the phenomena depart from a norm. The usual well-known cases of famous men who are said to have experienced hallucinations—Napoleon, Cromwell, Luther and the rest—are given, with the author's opinion that it would be preposterous to regard all these great men as subject to occasional disorders of the mind or as approaching insanity in any way. Many other idiosyncrasies of famous men are adduced and the conclusion arrived at that they merely resemble traits of the insane and are not real affinities. Genius resembles insanity as gold resembles brass—the similarity is merely in the appearance. A chapter on "Degeneration" follows, evidently written before the appearance of Nordau's book, but the whole subject of a universal degeneracy is disposed of later with the remark that there is no proof of such a condition in the highly civilized nations. Dr. Hirsch grants that a sort of hysteria does exist, but say that, thanks to the progress of science, the influence of mental disorder upon the general culture is decidedly less than in former periods of history. Under the heads of Secular Hysteria and Art and Insanity Nordau is recognized by name and his arguments answered. The longest chapter is given to Wagner and a defence of the man and his work against the attacks of Nordau and Puschmann, although nothing is said of the savage assaults of Nietzsche. There is much in the latter chapters to comfort the disbelievers in the doctrines of a gradual retrogression and deterioration, generation by generation, of mankind, and the whole book is of value to the psychological student.
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Author : William Hirsch
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-04-28
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Author : William Hirsch
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Release Date : 1897
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Author : William Hirsch
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-11
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Excerpt from Genius and Degeneration: A Psychological Study Psychiatry, or the science of mental diseases, is one of the fruits of the century now drawing to its close. It was only in 1792 that Pinel struck the fetters Off the patients at the Bicetre and began to treat them humanely; and as late as 1818 Esquirol reported to the ministry that criminals, not to say brutes, were better treated in France than were the insane. The progress of this youthful science within the last decades may, however, be contemplated with some degree Of satisfaction, and with a strong confidence that the stream Of knowledge will be poured out in still fuller volume in the years to come. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Man Of Genius
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Author : Cesare Lombroso
language : en
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Release Date : 2016-07-14
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First published in English in 1891, the present work argues that genius is a morbid condition, a form of insanity (albeit a very special one), which often occurs alongside physical or other mental abnormalities. Alexander was short. Cardano a hypochondriac. Socrates had a cretin-like physiognomy. Giotto had rickets. Kant had an abnormal development of the left parietal bone. Erasmus stammered. Saint Paul was an epileptic. Coleridge an alcoholic. Nerval a manic depressive. Carlyle abused his wife. Lombroso surveys hundreds of artistic, literary, and religious figures, noting the aberrations in their personalities, private lives, habits, creative work, physical traits, and psychological characteristics. The theory herein advanced, though controversial even in its day, proved nevertheless culturally influential. Notably, the author offered one of the earliest examinations of the art of the insane. Hans Prinzhorn, author of The Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1922) was inspired by Lombroso's examination of psychiatric art. Prinzhorn's work would in turn inspire Jean Dubuffet to found the Art Brut movement. Similarly, Max Nordau's Degeneration (1892)-an attack on degenerate art-owes much to Lombroso's work concerning men of genius in art and literature. Though outdated as a scientific study, with its fusion of criminology, criminal anthropology, degeneration theory, psychiatry, physiognomy, and Social Darwinism, The Man of Genius remains, all the same, a landmark in the history of ideas. And, though modern psychology classes much of what Lombroso deemed signs of insanity as minor aberrations, have his insights not retained an element of truth?
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Author : Cesare Lombroso
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Release Date : 1896
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Popular Science
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Release Date : 1897-02
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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
