How to Explain the Modern Personality Cult. Some Reflections on Edgar Zilsel’s Studies on Modern Genius-Veneration

Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication date: 2022-08-24
Springer Nature
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ISSN: 09296328, 22151818
Abstract
Edgar Zilsel’s genius-study from 1918 (Die Geniereligion) shows his first steps in defining the relationships between a work of art, its creator and the public in causal terms. The concepts that he used for analyzing the sociological phenomenon of genius-veneration are philosophical ones which he adopted from his teacher Heinrich Gomperz: “reflection” and “formalization”. We read Zilsel’s investigation as suggesting that both enthusiasm for the irrational and commitment to objectivity flow from the same sources, namely the sociological conditions of late modernity.
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Nemeth E. How to Explain the Modern Personality Cult. Some Reflections on Edgar Zilsel’s Studies on Modern Genius-Veneration // Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook. 2022. pp. 199-217.
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TY - GENERIC
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-93687-7_10
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93687-7_10
TI - How to Explain the Modern Personality Cult. Some Reflections on Edgar Zilsel’s Studies on Modern Genius-Veneration
T2 - Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook
AU - Nemeth, Elisabeth
PY - 2022
DA - 2022/08/24
PB - Springer Nature
SP - 199-217
SN - 0929-6328
SN - 2215-1818
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@incollection{2022_Nemeth,
author = {Elisabeth Nemeth},
title = {How to Explain the Modern Personality Cult. Some Reflections on Edgar Zilsel’s Studies on Modern Genius-Veneration},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
year = {2022},
pages = {199--217},
month = {aug}
}