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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... human energy . Lawrence , at once a moralist and a visionary artist , confuses the visionary and the ethical in order to achieve a specious integrity . And Dostoevsky shows again and again the slavery into which his " emancip- ated ...
... 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 morality are contaminated by the sickness of the present human condition ...
... 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 lock up disaster in a cellar . It drains into the sewer pipes , spreads to ...
... human will , and the extra- ordinary changefulness of our life makes it impossible for us to hold onto anything . When in " Signs of the Times " ( 1829 ) Carlyle lamented the new mechanical age , he spoke with the traditional confidence ...
... human qualities . " The vagabondage and egoism , " one critic has remarked of Montaigne , " are more or less superficial . What we find under the surface is a fairly firm . conviction , based on the Greek , and especially the Latin ...
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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 |