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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... judgment ; and the pure , noble victims fell , not knowing for what . The fate of the survivors was almost more grievous . Absorbed in wrangling among themselves , in personal disputes , in melancholy self - deception , and consumed by ...
... judgment that he had escaped when the acts were performed . But on closer inspection the moral animus disappears , for Jean- Jacques ' guilt does not issue in remorse or contrition . The guilt retains a residue of anxiety , but in the ...
... Rousseau's thought than to his feeling , a sort of check to his self- acknowledged moral indolence . Antinomianism can be found in Rousseau's judgment of Mme de Warens : All her faults were due to her errors , none 18 CHAPTER ONE.
... judgments , Rousseau repeatedly distinguishes his " pneumatic " sanctity : " After the most ardent and most sincere researches that perhaps had ever been made by any mortal , I decided for the rest of my life on the feeling which it was ...
... judgments of him in accordance with any commonly accepted ethical norm are impertinent . In fact , judgment itself becomes impossible , for judgment presupposes something with which the thing judged can be compared , and Rousseau is ...
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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 |