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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... belief in the myth . In speaking of myth , I intend no facile dispar- agement of it . We would not respond to 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 ...
... advance the claims of the self , they seek the controls that will secure these claims . Their efforts ( heroic as they are ) have ambiguous results . Jean - Jacques ' antinomian belief in the privileged status The Contemporary Situation 3.
... belief that at the bottom of the abyss a miracle awaits them , a miracle that will transform them , make them whole and powerful . The only " moral " capacity that the new romantics seem to demand is the courage to take the plunge . The ...
... belief that something new will spontaneously emerge is the other side of the nihilistic belief that the will is futile that we are at the mercy of chaotic forces we can . neither understand nor master . Futile too is the impulse to ...
... belief that what he is doing is without reference to an audience and hence without the accompanying impulse to justify himself . And yet the public confession of feeling is always modified by an anticipation of the response of the ...
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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 |