I. Conscience and Consciousness: Dualism or Unity?

Kapitel in diesem Buch

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