The genius and originality of Kant's philosophy lay in the means by which he made room for such judgments.
It wasn't until the Romantic era, which introduced the notion of the author as solitary genius, that originality came to be viewed as the paramount literary virtue.
If genius is originality, then the narrator knows that he lacks it; his art is something that he chooses to do, rather than a passion that has chosen him.
"Creed" begins with a cry for justice, for a society that would rescue every young Adonis from isolation, poverty, and brutality in order to foster their strength and cultivate their incipient spark of genius and originality.
The figure of Alice, Sontag explained, represented "the all too common reality of a woman who does not know what to do with her genius, her originality, her aggressiveness, and therefore becomes a career invalid".
Although he was greatly indebted to Husserl's genius and originality, Scheler was often critical of Husserl when describing the nature of phenomenology.
Despite the emphasis the Romantics laid on the individual artist and his/her genius and originality, the conceptualization of the Romantic Movement itself is essentially a collective work.
To us, 'Black Panther' means black kids get to see beautiful examples of black excellence, genius, & originality.
The sense that I fall between the two categories, of the academic and the man of genius & real originality, but better to make a full attempt toward "genius".
She's never heard of artists doing similar work, such as photographer Louise Lawler and Mike Bidlo, whose copies of and portraits of other artist's work serve to problematise the notions of authenticity, originality, genius and art-world commodification.
This pretty much describes postmodernism, with its penchant for recycling, appropriation and dispensing with concepts like originality and genius.
