The Genius Myth
What is means to be a genius and how it’s inherent individualism is mytholigized
The Genius Myth
“The book’s central message is that we should refrain from putting people on pedestals just because they happen to be talented. This is sensible, and Lewis’s suggestion that we should apply the term “genius” to specific works, rather than individual people, is persuasive.”
- The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things (The Guardian)
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researchgate.netDisrupting a Gendered Mythos of Artistic Creativity: a Critique of the ‘Lone Genius’ Narrative
“Something about the subject of intelligence has a warping effect on its most furious proponents,” writes Lewis, though it’s probably the other way round – the subject seems to attract people who are neurotically fixated with dominance. For such individuals, the idea of genius functions as a self-validating affectation; it “makes a fetish of
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