Genius syndrome. Collection of works on "philosophy of genius"

A sick society gives rise to sick people. According to the French scientist P. Renyar, proud insanity is a characteristic public disease. The sudden and often incomprehensible elevation of insignificant people, says Renjar, the opportunity to immediately reach the highest honors and posts, without passing through all the steps of the official hierarchy, is it not enough for all this to do not turn their heads, then at least give a special form to the delirium and direction?
Many politicians, bankers, entrepreneurs, journalists, writers, musicians, artists and artists suffer proudly insanity. The problem is complicated by the fact that real geniuses are also often crazy, because genius itself is an abnormal phenomenon.
The authors of the works presented in this book are trying to find a solution to this problem, to determine what the genius syndrome is. Their theoretical reasoning is reinforced by episodes from the life of universally recognized brilliant personalities suffering from a particular form of insanity: Mozart, Beethoven, Russo, Schopenhauer, Swift, Edgar 11o, Nikolai Gogol - and many others