The Unknown Distance : : From Consciousness to Conscience—Goethe to Camus /

The Unknown Distance : : From Consciousness to Conscience—Goethe to Camus / / Edward Engelberg.

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."...

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Engelberg, Edward,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1972
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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