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The Unknown Distance : From Consciousness to Conscience-Goethe to Camus /
Edward Engelberg argues that Conscience and Consciousness have slowly drifted apart from their once nearly identical meanings: inward knowledge of oneself. This process of separation, he shows, reached a critical point in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the age of "dualisms."...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2013]
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| Edición: | Reprint 2014 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- The unknown distance
- Introduction
- I. Conscience and Consciousness: Dualism or Unity?
- II. The Price of Consciousness: Goethe's Faust and Byron's Manfred
- III. The Risks of Consciousness: Goethe's Werther and Wordsworth's the Prelude
- IV. Some Versions of Consciousness and Egotism: Hegel, Dostoevsky's underground Man, and Peer Gynt
- V. Consciousness and Will: Poe and Mann
- VI. The Tyranny of Conscience: Arnold, James, and Conrad's Lord Jim
- VII. Towards a Genealogy of the Modern Problem: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Freud
- VIII. A Case of Conscience: Kafka's the Trial, Hesse's Steppenwolf, and Camus's the Fall
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index