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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... reader with a strange new hero . The conviction of his uniqueness distinguishes him at once from Augustine , who would have condemned Rousseau for the sin of pride . The events of his life , the feelings and thoughts that Rousseau ...
... reader , " but I wish to tell you one , only one , provided that you will permit me to tell it in as much detail as possible , in order to prolong my enjoyment . " 4 The anecdotes are about a happy time in his life , but the statement ...
... reader ( and himself ) to believe sufficient to absolve him of responsibility . The confession itself , then , is no longer an occasion for genuine contrition and expiation . The act of confession tends to bestow forgiveness . Thus , in ...
... reader of its significance and therefore of its worthiness of an audience . Rousseau must establish at once the truth and value of his singularity . But he is deluded about himself : he insists forever on his innocence and sincerity ...
... readers will be incredulous , who are always determined to judge me by their own standard , although they have been ... reader is to suspend his disbelief and enter sympathetically into the alien consciousness of the poet . Perhaps 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 |