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The Socio-Ethical Dimension of Knowledge, 2022, p.149-163
2022

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The Cult of Genius and Its Critics: Edgar Zilsel and Otto Neurath
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  • The Socio-Ethical Dimension of Knowledge, 2022, p.149-163
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Cham: Springer International Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
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  • Edgar Zilsel and Otto Neurath were among the few intellectuals who subjected the concept of genius to critical examination during the first half of the twentieth century. Although they lived during the same time and their intellectual and political biographies cross at numerous points, Zilsel and Neurath worked on their examinations at different times. Zilsel first dealt with the topic in 1918 in his remarkable book, Die Geniereligion (The Religion of Genius), and then again in 1926, in more detail, with a work on the origin of the genius concept: Die Entstehung des Geniebegriffes (The development of the idea of Genius). Neurath, on the other hand, addressed the topic only after he emigrated (in 1934 resp. in 1940) and in a different historical context: he dealt with the figure of the genius in connection with his reflections on the causes of National Socialism and its positive ideological acceptance within wide parts of German (and Austrian) society. Despite different starting points and, at least partly, different cognitive interests, their texts and thoughts on the concept of genius have a lot in common, that is, despite the different thematic, cultural, and political contexts of their reflections, both Edgar Zilsel and Otto Neurath understood that the idea of genius was not only a cultural question but also a political one.
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISBN: 9783030803629, 3030803627, 9783030803636, 3030803635
ISSN: 0929-6328
eISSN: 2215-1818
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-80363-6_8
Titel-ID: cdi_springer_books_10_1007_978_3_030_80363_6_8

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