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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... means that there is no alternative to resignation , and resignation for the imagination is ultimately a form of collaboration . Thus contemporary " romantics , " exalting spontaneity and narcotically induced states of ecstasy , are ...
... means that in venturing out into unknown seas they risked " shipwreck , " and that we can mark the course of our lives by the disaster they suffered.15 The remark is valuable , if we discount the possible suggestion that their work is ...
... impulse . The source of that impulse is compassion or pity , the natural sentiment , in Rousseau's view , on which society is based . By compassion Rousseau does not mean Christian charity ; he means rather a 20 CHAPTER ONE.
The Self in Modern Literature. does not mean Christian charity ; he means rather a sentiment complementary to and expressive of amour de sot . Rousseauian compassion moderates but does not cancel the love of self , and it serves the self ...
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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 |