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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... simply denies the expressive character of the imagination . Though a writer may transform his life experi- ences into art , the experiences are that of the writer . The / of the narrator is rarely entirely fictional . This is ...
... we detect the absence of genuine remorse , we cannot simply charge Jean - Jacques with sophistic self - justification . Rousseau's " method " is too transparent , too revealing Antinomianism of Jean - Jacques Rousseau 13.
... simply a " psychological case " : he always raises his torment to the dignity of a philosophical idea . ) The virtue is amour de soi , which translates roughly as self - respect or pride , and the vice is amour propre , to which egoism ...
... 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 world ) are separated ...
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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 |