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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... course involves us in a giant labor of social history . But there is one reason that can be readily isolated and which , I think , explains much . It is this : If you set yourself to shaping a self , a life , you limit yourself to that ...
... course of revolutionary hope and despair . " Herzen draws a moral for his own generation : " The rupture of which Byron , as a poet and a genius , was conscious forty years ago , now , after a succession of new experiences , after the ...
... course , is not new to literature or life , though the literature of extreme experience seems often innocent of its tradition — perhaps unavoidably so since it depends upon a sense of its own novelty and freshness and a knowledge of ...
... course of our lives by the disaster they suffered.15 The remark is valuable , if we discount the possible suggestion that their work is cautionary in the traditional moral sense . Nietzsche's refusal to confound dissection with moral ...
... 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 suffering . Rousseau would have been incapable of ...
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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 |