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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... Passion 114 6 Walt Whitman : Democracy and the Self 133 7 Lawrence and Christ 161 8 Joyce and the Career of the Artist - Hero 183 Notes Bibliography of Books and Essays Cited Index 201 214 221 I have watched the soul , Ferdinand , give way.
... passion is a need to dramatize him- self , to show himself as other — and this passion cannot be reduced to moral or exemplary terms . The Confessions belongs to a side of Rousseau that made him uneasy when he thought of the role he had ...
... passions all tend directly toward our happiness , and bring before us only the objects related to that end ; since they are rooted only in self - love , they are all essentially tender and loving : but when they are deflected from their ...
... passions . She was well born , her heart was pure , she loved propriety ; her inclinations were upright and virtuous , her taste was refined ... instead of listening to her heart , which always guided her aright , she listened to her ...
... passion , pity , intimacy provide an atmosphere in which the ego can expand , display itself , and delight in itself . In his last work , Reveries of a Solitary Walker , Rousseau reproaches himself for the exhibitionism of The ...
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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 |