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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... sentiments and motives . For all of Rousseau's apparent and real candor , the confessions are motivated by a desire to sustain his self - esteem at all costs . There is more than a hint of this trait in his failure to do the decent ...
... sentiments of his heart . Jean - Jacques ' solitude , Rousseau is at pains to make clear , is the result neither of ... sentiment , in Rousseau's view , on which society is based . By compassion Rousseau does not mean Christian charity ...
... 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 as well as the species by diminishing human destructiveness . It is then certain ...
... sentiment ; it has the emotional atmosphere of an uninhibited self - regard . Rousseau's feeling that he writes only for himself ( in the Reveries ) is his illusion of privacy . He needs the belief that what he is doing is without ...
... sentiment of original sin , the legacy of Calvinism . So strong is the sentiment that the antinomian must utterly expel the conviction of guilt or sin in order to " justify " himself — or better , to save himself . Despite 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 |