Beyond The Tragic Vision: The Quest For Identity In The Nineteenth Century - Couverture rigide

Peckham, Morse

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ISBN 10 : 1258032600 ISBN 13 : 9781258032609

Editeur : Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011

Synopsis

Beyond The Tragic Vision: The Quest For Identity In The Nineteenth Century is a book written by Peckham, Morse. The book explores the concept of identity in the 19th century and how it was shaped by various cultural, social, and political factors. The author argues that the 19th century was a time of great change and upheaval, which led to a search for identity among individuals and societies. The book examines the works of various writers, philosophers, and thinkers of the time, including Nietzsche, Emerson, and Thoreau, who grappled with questions of identity and self-discovery. The author also discusses the impact of scientific discoveries, industrialization, and colonialism on the formation of identity in the 19th century. Beyond The Tragic Vision is a thought-provoking and insightful book that sheds light on the complex and multifaceted nature of identity in the 19th century.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book is an attempt to find the central nerve of nineteenth-century culture, to discover the problem which unifies the most important cultural documents in the century's philosophy, literature, painting and music. The author sketches how, with the collapse of the Enlightenment at the end of the eighteenth century, it became necessary for the individual to derive order, meaning and value from his own identity rather from the objective world. Professor Peckham sees four stages in the nineteenth century's effort to solve the problem of finding a ground for human identity: the period of discovery and analogy from man to nature (sometimes called Romanticism), the period of Transcendentalism, the period of Objectism (sometimes, though less inclusively, called Realism or Naturalism), and the period of Stylism (sometimes inadequately called Aestheticism). At the end of this process, Nietzsche asserted that human identity exists but has no grounds in nature or the divine. This enabled him to do what the nineteenth century above all wished to do: to recognise the reality of human life in the contraries and opposites of human experience without falsifying them by comfortable but illusory reconciliation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1258032600
• ISBN 13: 9781258032609
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 382
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible