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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... action must be a pattern for others to imitate , 13 Norman Mailer affirms " the subterranean river of untapped , ferocious , lonely , romantic desires , that concentration of ecstasy and violence which is the dream - life of the nation ...
... actions , the pride of the immoralist asserts itself in the fantastically indulgent descriptions of everything . The pleasure of recollection is so great for Rousseau that whatever moral impulse is contained in the work gives way to a ...
... action for the things he had done . It is of course true that the time for compensation had passed . But I am characterizing a mentality which immediately transforms the whole question of moral responsibility to one of personal ...
... actions to his sentiments and motives . For all of Rousseau's apparent and real candor , the confessions are motivated by a desire to sustain his self - esteem at all costs . There is more than a hint of this trait in his failure to do ...
... actions ; apart from Thee , I find nothing to raise me above the beasts- nothing but the sad privilege of wandering from one error to another , by the help of an unbridled understanding and a reason which knows no principle.16 And so ...
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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 |