Making way for genius
Subtitle: the aspiring self in France from the old regime to the new
By: Kathleen Kete
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780300174823
Subjects: Intellectual life; Self; Ambition; Individuality; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The aspiring self in France from the old regime to the new; title: Genius, Madame de Staël, and the soul of prodigious success; title: Vocation, Stendhal, and the art of living ethically; title: Destiny, cuvier, and post-revolutionary politics; title: Friendship matters; arguments from Egypt; coda on Napoleon; title: Ambition in post-revolutionary lives.