The Invention of the Self: The Hinge of Consciousness in the Eighteenth CenturySouthern Illinois University Press, 1978 - 268 sidor The absence of self in Classical literature and the emergence in the eighteenth century of the concept of the unique and individual self asserting its existence and seeking its truth in private experience and feeling is often touched upon in cultural histories but little explained. Seeking the reasons for and the effects of the change of attitude toward one's concept of one's self in the "new" eighteenth-century attitude toward history, biography, travel literature, pornography, and the novel, Lyons finds, first, that the term self is deceptively vague. It evolved, he notes, to fill the vacuum created by doubt about the existence of the soul. Second, Lyons finds that without a concept of the self--that ineffable something in a human being that to its inventors and their followers was an abstract of pure and intuited natural laws--the revolution and romanticism of the modern age would have been very different from what it has been. More importantly, Lyons concludes that the concept led to monumental error and to bitter disappointments rooted, as his illuminating history shows, in the impossibility of defining that which never was. |
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... Don Juan . Such " standing aside " may not be truly possible until the problem of how the self can know the self is fully articulated in the middle of the eighteenth century . Yet if there is one writer before this time who used this ...
... Don Juan Many streams have come together to encourage a concept of the unique and individualistic self . From one direction they join with tremendous roiling in the revolutions of the last quarter of the eighteenth century . From that ...
... Peter . The Renaissance Sense of the Past . London : Edward Arnold , 1969 . Byron , Lord . Don Juan . Edited by Leslie A. Marchand . Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1958 . Campbell , Joseph . The Hero With a Thousand Faces Bibliography 253.
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The Invention of the Self: The Hinge of Consciousness in the Eighteenth Century John O. Lyons Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1978 |
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