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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... effort to do so . The movement I describe as well as the movement of my exposition is not one - directional : it has crosscurrents as well . Relationships between writers are dialectical , even adversarial . Both Nietzsche and Stendhal ...
... effort to go on . " If I could learn something by heart , I'd be saved . " 8 But he cannot . So he is compelled to say " the same thing , and each time it's an effort , the seconds must be all alike and each one is infernal . " The hell ...
... effort to extend the boundaries of the self by going beyond the area of safety in order to create the adventure of ... efforts ( heroic as they are ) have ambiguous results . Jean - Jacques ' antinomian belief in the privileged status ...
... effort of resistance : moral , religious , aesthetic . With a large portion of contemporary literature , it is as though there were no leftover energy for resistance . The imagination is totally committed to the experi- ence of ...
... principle of the continuous superannuation of everything ) in creating an atmosphere in which the effort of resistance seems impossible . The forces of contemporary life are too powerful and too The Contemporary Situation 7.
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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 |