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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... possible . My book was in the making several years earlier . Like most people , I did not foresee the explosive events of '68 , though in retrospect one can now see its historical " logic . " The Civil Rights move- ment had already been ...
... possible suggestion that their work is cautionary in the traditional moral sense . Nietzsche's refusal to confound dissection with moral preachment marks him off from democratic nihilism . The temptation of democratic nihilism can be ...
... possible , in order to prolong my enjoyment . " 4 The anecdotes are about a happy time in his life , but the statement could as well apply to his sufferings and humiliations . Rousseau's confessional impulse seems to take as much ...
... possible signs of grace , but not unmistakable confirmations . Both Luther and Calvin meant to dramatize the superior importance of the inward disposition of the soul to divine light , for the un- bounded mercy of God is reflected in ...
... possible to others . 24 But this philosophical formulation of compassion does not fully convey the role it plays in Jean - Jacques ' drama . As an element in the character of Jean - Jacques , it is inextricably bound up with his egoism ...
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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 |