The Cult of the Ego: The Self in Modern LiteratureTransaction Publishers - Всего страниц: 225 Goethe once remarked that "every emancipation of the spirit is pernicious unless there is a corresponding growth of control." This remark may be taken as a motto for Eugene Goodheart's study of an aspect of the cultural history of the past two hundred years. In separate chapters on Rousseau, Stendhal, Goethe and Carlyle, Dostoevsky, Whitman, Lawrence, and Joyce, Goodheart discovers a community of concern which he calls the cult of the ego. |
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... Dostoevsky and the Hubris of the Immoralist ༡༠ 5 Nietzsche and the Aristocracy of Passion 114 6 Walt Whitman : Democracy and the Self 133 7 Lawrence and Christ 161 8 Joyce and the Career of the Artist - Hero 183 Notes Bibliography of ...
... Dostoevsky shows again and again the slavery into which his " emancip- ated " heroes are led through their immoralist presumptions . The seeds of the modern situation are already in the failures of the heroes of the cult of the ego ...
... Dostoevsky character who has pre - empted the moral authority of the novelist . Immoralism , of course , is not new to literature or life , though the literature of extreme experience seems often innocent of its tradition — perhaps ...
... Dostoevsky before him taught , is slavery , not freedom . To be driven by a murderous impulse or by the compulsion to be beaten may produce an ecstasy of pain and pleasure , but it is not to be confused with the repossession of one's ...
... him to punishment as often as they win him admirers . The unveiling of the self is based on the presump- tion that he is unmasking the god in himself , for which he can expect only love and admiration . But as Dostoevsky 22 CHAPTER ONE.
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The Aesthetic Morality of Stendhal | 32 |
Goethe Carlyle and The Sorrows of Werther | 57 |
Dostoevsky and the Hubris of the Immoralist | 86 |
Nietzsche and the Aristocracy of Passion | 110 |
Walt Whitman Democracy and the Self | 129 |
Lawrence and Christ | 157 |
Joyce and the Career of the ArtistHero | 179 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography of Books and Essays cited | 210 |
Index | 217 |