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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... man , and forms a power which , if not opposed to the moral order of the world , yet crosses it so that one may be regarded as the warp and the other as the woof . " I cannot say that the book has successfully achieved the poise of ...
... the Latin , classics , as to what the true man should be . " 2 Rousseau is perversely , one might say pathologically , unique . And he cherishes his uniqueness with the pride of the immoralist . " If I am not better , at least I 9.
... man , the immoralist of Nietzsche and Gide . What do these characters have in common ? In the first place , none of them is virtuous , except perhaps in the Renaissance sense of virtù . They possess an energy , an impulsiveness for ...
... man from his duty , which is to support and educate his own children . If a man of any natural feeling neglects these sacred duties he will repent it with bitter tears and will never be comforted . " ( Emile , p . 17. ) He has suffered ...
... man with the highest conception of himself who feels his self- respect menaced at its very foundations is like a man threat- ened by physical destruction . II " That I was a great transcendent sinner I confess . But still I had hopes 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 |