The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... genius of Johnson is harder to capture and define ( than Boswell's genius ) . Perhaps it might be said to consist in an unfailing instinct for the realities of life . When he utters what sounds like a commonplace , it will be found on ...
... genius of Johnson is harder to capture and define ( than Boswell's genius ) . Perhaps it might be said to consist in an unfailing instinct for the realities of life . When he utters what sounds like a commonplace , it will be found on ...
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... genius and yet be subjected to mental disturbances , with- out these two concepts having of necessity to be each other's derivatives . All the more I therefore wish to emphasize that it is an error to view genius and disease as direct ...
... genius and yet be subjected to mental disturbances , with- out these two concepts having of necessity to be each other's derivatives . All the more I therefore wish to emphasize that it is an error to view genius and disease as direct ...
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... genius . In this line of reasoning , two types of genius can be distin- guished : first , the hybrid talents and geniuses , arising from type mixing and consequent loss of correlation ; second the mental giants ( analogous to physical ...
... genius . In this line of reasoning , two types of genius can be distin- guished : first , the hybrid talents and geniuses , arising from type mixing and consequent loss of correlation ; second the mental giants ( analogous to physical ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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