The Cult of the Ego

The Self in Modern Literature
Herausgeber: Goodheart, Eugene

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Goethe once remarked that "every emancipation of the spirit is pernicious unless there is a corresponding growth of control

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781138535008
• ISBN-10: 1138535001
• Artikelnr.: 71795200

Autorenporträt

Eugene Goodheart

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I: The Antinomianism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2: The Aesthetic Morality of Stendhal
3: Goethe, Carlyle, and "The Sorrows of Werther"
4: Dostoevsky and the Hubris of the Immoralist
5: Nietzsche and the Aristocracy of Passion
6: Walt Whitman: Democracy and the Self
7: Lawrence and Christ
8: Joyce and the Career of the Artist-Hero