The Cult of the Ego (eBook, PDF)

The Self in Modern Literature
Redaktion: Goodheart, Eugene

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Eugene Goodheart's study of an aspect of the cultural history of the past two hundred years, which he calls the cult of the ego, shows how the seeds of contemporary nihilism are in the failures of these writers to master the chaos of egoism, which they helped engender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 225
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351305037
• Artikelnr.: 57889770

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