Making Way for Genius: The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New
Autor Kathleen Keteen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 mai 2012
Kete identifies three strategies used to overcome the ethical “burden” of ambition: romantic genius (Staël), secular vocation (Stendhal), and post-mythic destiny (Cuvier). In each case, success would seem to be driven by forces outside one’s control. She concludes by examining the still relevant (and still unresolved) conundrum of the relationship of individual desires to community needs, which she identifies as a defining characteristic of the modern world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300174823
ISBN-10: 0300174829
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 1 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300174829
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 1 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Notă biografică
Kathleen Kete, Borden W. Painter, Jr., '58/H'95 Professor of European History at Trinity College, is the author of The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris. She lives in West Hartford, CT.
Recenzii
"A fascinating, elegant and thought-provoking book that makes a significant contribution to modern European cultural history.”—David A. Bell, Princeton University
“The analysis is smart, sure-footed, and highly readable, and the book is guaranteed to attract much attention from all historians and other Europeanists interested in Romantic culture, post-Revolutionary politics, and the discovery of the modern ‘self.’”—Jay M. Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Genius, vocation, destiny: Kathleen Kete follows these grand themes through the facts and fiction of a host of fascinating lives, showing how French men and women at the turn of the nineteenth century negotiated their fears of a powerful force—ambition—unleashed by the tumults of Revolution. Her scholarship is thorough, her writing elegant, her insights fresh and timely. This is an admirable book."—Darrin M. McMahon, author of Happiness: A History