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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... feeling that if the morals dissected are inadequate , even poisonous , to human life , then the ultimate purpose of such dissection must be to discover a new morality for everyone . But the fact that the inherited forms of reason and ...
... feeling that the enormities of contem- porary life are not subject to the human will — that they are too deep in human character to be exorcised by conventional moral responses . As Oskar of Günter Grass's Tin Drum says : " You can't ...
... feelings and thoughts that Rousseau records in such copious detail are the consequences of a proudly extravagant sensibility and a perverse temperament . Nor is Rousseau like that other great confessor , Montaigne , crotchety and ...
... feelings and hesitated to excuse myself by what is strictly true . Wicked intent was never further from me than at that cruel moment ; and when I accused the unhappy girl , it is singular , but it is true , that my friendship for her ...
... feeling .... 6 This is hardly the language of contrition . All that Rousseau can muster at the end of this passage is a statement about " the unhappiness that has overwhelmed the last years of [ his ] life . " In that fact , Rousseau ...
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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 |