"A stunning exploration of ambition that brings together literary, philosophical, psychological, and sociological perspectives on this most human of passions. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, from authors and thinkers that range from Hesiod to Kafka and from Shakespeare to Freud, and from a history that moves from ancient Greece and Rome via Italian Renaissance to modernity, Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition-an insatiable hunter in the mirror-and power"--
"A stunning exploration of ambition that brings together literary, philosophical, psychological, and sociological perspectives on this most human of passions. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, from authors and thinkers that range from Hesiod to Kafka and from Shakespeare to Freud, and from a history that moves from ancient Greece and Rome via Italian Renaissance to modernity, Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition-an insatiable hunter in the mirror-and power"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Eckart Goebel is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Tübingen, Germany. He is the author of Konstellation und Existenz. Kritik der Geschichte um 1930: Studien zu Heidegger, Benjamin, Jahnn und Musil (1996), Am Ufer der zweiten Welt. Jean Pauls "Poetische Landschaftsmalerei" (1999), Der engagierte Solitär. Die Gewinnung des Begriffs Einsamkeit aus der Phänomenologie der Liebe im Frühwerk Jean-Paul Sartres (2001), Charis und Charisma. Grazie und Gewalt von Winckelmann bis Heidegger (2006) and Jenseits des Unbehagens. Sublimierung von Goethe bis Lacan (2009). He serves on the Editorial Board of Oxford German Studies.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction I. Semantics of Ambition II. Eris - Agon - Ambition III. Ambition in Modernity 1. A New Era of Ambition (Jacob Burckhardt) 2. The Ambition of Equals (Alexis de Tocqueville) 3. Critique of Success (Gustav Ichheiser) 4. Critique of Contemplation (Karl Mannheim) 5. The Ambitious Spoilsport (Roger Caillois) 6. Hesiod's Return in the Achieving Society (David McClelland) 7. Burning Ambition (Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler) The Ambition to Reject Ambition: An Afterword with a View to Montaigne Index
Introduction I. Semantics of Ambition II. Eris - Agon - Ambition III. Ambition in Modernity 1. A New Era of Ambition (Jacob Burckhardt) 2. The Ambition of Equals (Alexis de Tocqueville) 3. Critique of Success (Gustav Ichheiser) 4. Critique of Contemplation (Karl Mannheim) 5. The Ambitious Spoilsport (Roger Caillois) 6. Hesiod's Return in the Achieving Society (David McClelland) 7. Burning Ambition (Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler) The Ambition to Reject Ambition: An Afterword with a View to Montaigne Index
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