L’Exception exemplaire

Inventions et usages du genie (XVIe-XVIIIe siecle)

by Jean-Alexandre Perras

Book cover: L’Exception exemplaire

Extent: 413 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Lire le XVIIe siecle

Series volume number: 34, 7

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(February 2016)

ISBN: 9782812438967

Price: $69.00

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Between the linguistic debates of the sixteenth century and the untimely “Pantheonisations” of the Revolution, the history of the genius is agonistic. A pivot between the individual and the collective, genius is both exceptional and exemplary. Being never truly “para-doxal” is not the least of its paradoxes.


Between the linguistic debates of the sixteenth century and the untimely “Pantheonisations” of the Revolution, the history of the genius is agonistic. A pivot between the individual and the collective, genius is both exceptional and exemplary. Being never truly “para-doxal” is not the least of its paradoxes.

  • By (author) Jean-Alexandre Perras