Divine Fury (76 page)

Lactantius,
40

Lakanal, Joseph,
109

Lange-Eichbaum, Wilhem,
xiv–xv
,
162
,
199
,
248 n.11

Language,
4
,
5
,
13
,
133

Lavater, Johann Caspar,
77
,
96
,
152
,
153–154
,
175
,
185

Lebenskraft
,
114
,
142
,
149

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

Locke, John,
75
,
79–80
,
129

Lombroso, Cesare,
152
,
168–171
,
172
,
173
,
187
,
188
,
201
,
215

Longinus,
24
,
85–86
,
110

Love,
14
,
52
,
125
,
133

Lowth, Robert,
127

Luther, Martin,
53
,
189

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

Maistre, Joseph de,
112
,
142

Mann, Thomas,
210
,
219–220

Mao Zedong,
236

Marc Antony,
xvi
,
26
,
27

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

Maudsley, Henry,
171
,
195

Maximus of Tyre,
9

Mayakovsky, Vladimir,
203
,
205–206

Media,
191
,
226
,
239

Melancholy,
xvii
,
18
,
54–55
,
62
,
136
,
138–139
,
140
.
See also
Humors
;
Madness

Mendelssohn, Moses,
91

Mengele, Joseph,
229

Metallurgy,
4
,
5

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

Military genius,
xv
,
122–123

Mill, John Stuart,
184

Milton, John,
5
,
82
,
145
,
169

Mimesis,
2–3
,
72
,
86
,
91
,
100
,
233
.
See also
Imitation

Mirabeau,
106
,
107
,
110
,
119

Miracles,
94
,
95
,
98
,
100

Möbius, Paul Julius,
162

Modernism,
194
,
195

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

Moses,
12
,
37
,
127

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
69
,
91–95
,
100–101
,
117
,
149
,
220
,
222
,
224

Muller, Hermann J.,
205

Muse(s),
10–11
,
12
,
14
,
17
,
25

Music,
147
,
197
,
221
,
238
.
See also individual composers

Musil, Robert,
231–232

Muslims,
1

Mussolini, Benito,
210
,
230

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