An essay on genius.
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| Author / Creator: | Gerard, Alexander, 1728-1795. |
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| Imprint: | New York, Garland Pub., 1970. |
| Description: | vii, 434 pages 21 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2891297 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Of the nature of genius
- Of the province and criterion of genius
- To what faculty of the mind, genius properly belongs
- How genius arises from the imagination
- Of the influence of judgment upon genius
- Of the dependence of genius on other intellectual powers
- 2. Of the general sources of the varieties of genius
- Of the sources of the varieties of genius in the imagination; particularly of the qualities of ideas which produce association
- Of the influence of habit on association
- Of the influence of the passions on association
- Reflections on the principles of association. Ideas suggested, either by sensations, or by other ideas
- Of the combination of the associating principles
- Of the modifications of the associating principles
- Of flexibility of imagination
- Of the varieties of memory, and their influence on genius
- Of the varieties of judgment, and their influence on genius
- 3. Of the kinds of genius
- Genius twofold; for science, or for the arts
- Of the structure of imagination which distinguishes the two kinds of genius
- How the two kinds of genius differ in respect of the assistance which they derive form memory
- How the two kinds of genius differ in respect of the assistance which they derive from judgment
- The two kinds of genius farther compared and distingushed
- Taste essential to genius for the arts
- The power of execution necessary to genius for the arts
- Of the union of different kinds of genius.