Authors: Darrin M. McMahon
Lactantius,
40
Lakanal, Joseph,
109
Lange-Eichbaum, Wilhem,
xiv–xv
,
162
,
199
,
248 n.11
Lavater, Johann Caspar,
77
,
96
,
152
,
153–154
,
175
,
185
Le Bon, Gustave,
213
Leclerc, Georges-Louis,
223
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,
184
,
223
Lélut, Louis-Francisque,
162
,
164
,
167
,
187
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich,
173
,
191
,
200
,
204
,
207
brain of,
201
,
202–203
,
205–206
,
229
Leonardo da Vinci,
xvii
,
62
,
63
,
64–65
,
108
,
191
Leopardi, Giacomo,
140
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim,
198
Linnaeus, Carl,
223
Lives of the Artists
(Vasari),
62
,
63
Livy,
21
Lombroso, Cesare,
152
,
168–171
,
172
,
173
,
187
,
188
,
201
,
215
Lowth, Robert,
127
Lysenko, Trofim,
205
Machiavelli, Niccolò,
119
Madness,
140
.
See also
Divine madness
;
Melancholy
;
under
Genius
Magic,
48–49
,
50
,
52
,
55
,
78
,
121
,
145
Magus/magi,
46–47
,
48
,
49
,
51
,
67
,
141
Mao Zedong,
236
Martyrs,
33
,
34
,
35
,
36
,
108
,
137
,
194
,
218
Marx, Karl,
206–207
Marxism,
72
,
191
,
204
,
205
,
206
,
237
Materialism,
155
,
160
,
186
,
206
,
223
Maximus of Tyre,
9
Mayakovsky, Vladimir,
203
,
205–206
Melancholy,
xvii
,
18
,
54–55
,
62
,
136
,
138–139
,
140
.
See also
Humors
;
Madness
Mendelssohn, Moses,
91
Mengele, Joseph,
229
Metempsychosis,
15
Michelangelo,
xvii
,
34
,
61–66
,
89
,
120
,
220
Middle Ages,
31
,
37
,
44
,
45
,
46
,
48
,
89
,
158
Middle class,
72
Miletus,
14
Mill, John Stuart,
184
Mimesis,
2–3
,
72
,
86
,
91
,
100
,
233
.
See also
Imitation
Möbius, Paul Julius,
162
Moejn, Jon A.,
217
Molodovsky, Kadya,
236
Monge, Gaspard,
122
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de,
131
,
216
Moreau, Jacques-Joseph,
152
,
163–167
,
167–168
,
169
,
172
,
185
,
187
,
201
Morel, Bénédict Auguste,
165
,
168
,
Moscow Brain Institute,
202
,
205
,
206
,
207
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
69
,
91–95
,
100–101
,
117
,
149
,
220
,
222
,
224
Muller, Hermann J.,
205
Music,
147
,
197
,
221
,
238
.
See also individual composers
Musil, Robert,
231–232
Muslims,
1
Napoleon Bonaparte,
115–124
,
126
,
134
,
145
,
146
,
147
,
166
,
173
,
190
,
192–193
,
197
,
216–217
,
220
as evil genius,
143
,
145
,
146
as genius of deeds,
123
IQ of,
184
penis of,
158–159
,
283 n.13
as Promethean artist,
143
use of genius to legitimate rule,
116–119
Nazis,
171
,
191
,
210
,
229
.
See also
Hitler, Adolf
Nazi cult of genius,
218
,
219
,
220
,
221
Nero,
30
Nerval, Gérard de,
164
Newton, Isaac,
69
,
96
,
98–100
,
101
,
111
,
116
,
122
,
152
,
154
,
222
,
223
,
225
,
237