Cult of the Ego : The Self in Modern Literature

by Eugene Goodheart

Book Overview

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 Goodheartas 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. The Cult of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226302865
• ISBN13: 9780226302867
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.