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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... mind , are the household views of the Christian Conscience of New England and , one might add , of Old England , too ... mind : it is dedicated to " mind- expansion , " to a new " consciousness . " It is irresponsible to call this ...
... Mind , reason , intellect , comprehension , under- standing , ” that is , what in essence we later come to call conscious- ness . In Anglo - Saxon , inwit is used often , meaning " deceit , ' “ guile , ” and similar terms . If one were ...
... mind from the destiny of his soul " : the " prob- lem of knowledge " could not , and was not , detached from " the totality " of what constitutes a man's self . The trap is inherent when Goethe stipulates in the Faust - Mephisto wager ...
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