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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... things , indeed even in animals it expresses itself most remarkably , yet it stands especially in the most won- derful connection with man , and forms a power which , if not opposed to the moral order of the world , yet crosses it so ...
... thing , of going a little further along a dreary road . . . preferring [ instead ] the expression that there is nothing to express , nothing from which to express , together with the obligation to express . " Implicit in the argument I ...
... thing , and each time it's an effort , the seconds must be all alike and each one is infernal . " The hell of a Beckett character is the unrelenting repetition of the same moment , with only the most occasional variations in suffering ...
... things he had done . It is of course true that the time for compensation had passed . But I am characterizing a mentality which immediately transforms the whole question of moral responsibility to one of personal suffering . Rousseau ...
... thing is what I felt , not what I did , " Rousseau seems to tell us ; he attempts to gain our sympathy by distracting our attention from his actions to his sentiments and motives . For all of Rousseau's apparent and real candor , 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 |