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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... Whitman : Democracy and the Self 133 7 Lawrence and Christ 161 8 Joyce and the Career of the Artist - Hero 183 Notes Bibliography of Books and Essays Cited Index 201 214 221 I have watched the soul , Ferdinand , give way.
... Whitman , and Lawrence , who appear in the pages that follow , in their varying ways affirm the self against all the forces in society and culture inimical to its fulfillment . They are , in Karl Jaspers's suggestive phrase ...
... expressed , but the fact of expression itself . The classic expression of this myth is the poetry of Walt Whitman , who endows each of his multitudinous subjects with the grace Introduction to the Transaction Edition xiii Prefatory Note.
... Whitman's poetry as we do if it weren't for the powerful hold it has in our culture . But Whitman's achievement is sui generis , and , I suspect , unrepeatable . I cite Rilke's dream of the artist as a kind of Nietzschean ubermensch ...
... Whitman and Rilke , the work of Lawrence are all an effort to extend the boundaries of the self by going beyond the area of safety in order to create the adventure of the " spirit " which even risks the destruction of the self ...
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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 |