The Unknown Distance: From Consciousness to Conscience, Goethe to CamusEdward 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." Tracing the evolution of the severance of Conscience from Consciousness, he demonstrates from a wide range of examples in literature and philosophy how such a division shaped the attitudes of important writers and thinkers. The study opens with the Romantics and closes with Kafka, Hesse, and Camus. It includes analyses of Hegel, Dostoevsky, James, Conrad, and Freud and brings together for comparison such pairings as Poe and Mann, Goethe and Wordsworth, Arnold and Nietzsche. Engelberg concludes that the cleavage of Conscience from Consciousness is untenable. To dispossess Conscience, he asserts, man would also need to dispossess a full awareness, a full Consciousness; and a full Consciousness inevitably leads back to Conscience. |
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... genealogy of conscience - consciousness as it mani- fests itself finally in some of the major modern writers . In addition , these three men often shared major positions , though each succeeding figure made advances and generally ...
... Genealogy of Morals . Dr. Eduard Hitschmann opened the proceedings by calling Nietzsche a " moralist " rather than a philosopher , a man of " unusual sagacity . " He then intro- duced the Genealogy as another of Nietzsche's arguments in ...
... Genealogy of Morals I have used On The Genealogy of Morals , tr . Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale ( New York : Random House , 1967 ) , pp . 15-163 . The Genealogy is part of a collection in- cluding aphorisms and Ecce Homo with ...
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