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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... reason that can be readily isolated and which , I think , explains much . It is this : If you set yourself to shaping a self , a life , you limit yourself to that self and that life . You preclude any other kind of self available to you ...
... reason and morality are contaminated by the sickness of the present human condition does not justify a plunge into moral and intellectual chaos . Such a remedy , from Nietzsche's point of view , would be worse than the disease . Norman ...
... reasons for the nihilism : the atomic bomb , the incredible devastations of contemporary wars and concentration camps . Recent German literature , in particular , has taught us that the natural impulse toward immediate indignation or ...
... reason and modified by compassion , creates humanity and virtue . Egoism is a purely relative and factitious feeling , which arises in the state of society , leads each individual to make more of himself than of any other , causes all ...
... reason of their nature simply cannot be overtaken by corruption — quite independently of how the pneumatic man conducts his life . 15 In this view , intention ( an expression of pneuma ) and deed ( a fact of the sensuous and corruptible ...
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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 |