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VIII. A Case of Conscience: Kafka's the Trial, Hesse's Steppenwolf, and Camus's the Fall
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Contents xvii
- The unknown distance xix
- Introduction 1
- I. Conscience and Consciousness: Dualism or Unity? 8
- II. The Price of Consciousness: Goethe's Faust and Byron's Manfred 40
- III. The Risks of Consciousness: Goethe's Werther and Wordsworth's the Prelude 58
- IV. Some Versions of Consciousness and Egotism: Hegel, Dostoevsky's underground Man, and Peer Gynt 87
- V. Consciousness and Will: Poe and Mann 117
- VI. The Tyranny of Conscience: Arnold, James, and Conrad's Lord Jim 144
- VII. Towards a Genealogy of the Modern Problem: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Freud 186
- VIII. A Case of Conscience: Kafka's the Trial, Hesse's Steppenwolf, and Camus's the Fall 208
- Conclusion 242
- Notes 257
- Index 281
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Contents xvii
- The unknown distance xix
- Introduction 1
- I. Conscience and Consciousness: Dualism or Unity? 8
- II. The Price of Consciousness: Goethe's Faust and Byron's Manfred 40
- III. The Risks of Consciousness: Goethe's Werther and Wordsworth's the Prelude 58
- IV. Some Versions of Consciousness and Egotism: Hegel, Dostoevsky's underground Man, and Peer Gynt 87
- V. Consciousness and Will: Poe and Mann 117
- VI. The Tyranny of Conscience: Arnold, James, and Conrad's Lord Jim 144
- VII. Towards a Genealogy of the Modern Problem: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Freud 186
- VIII. A Case of Conscience: Kafka's the Trial, Hesse's Steppenwolf, and Camus's the Fall 208
- Conclusion 242
- Notes 257
- Index 281
