The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of ModernityEbsco Publishing, 1991 - 373 oldal In this important revisionist study, Posnock integrates literary and psychological criticism with social and cultural theory to make a major advance in our understanding of the life and thought of two great American figures, Henry and William James. Challenging canonical images of bothbrothers, Posnock is the first to place them in a rich web of cultural and intellectual affiliations comprised of a host of American and European theorists of modernity. A startlingly new Henry James emerges from a cross-disciplinary dialogue, which features Veblen, Santayana, Bourne, and Dewey, aswell as Weber. |
Tartalomjegyzék
Henry and William James | 27 |
Breaking the Aura of Henry James | 80 |
Mimetic Selfhood | 167 |
Notes | 293 |
Works Cited | 337 |
Index | 349 |
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Adorno aesthetic aestheticism alien Ambassadors American Scene androgynous Autobiography become behavior belief Benjamin bourgeois Bourne chapter concept consciousness context contradiction critical Critical Theory critique cultural curiosity defines describes Dewey Dewey's dialectical difference effort Ellis Island embodies empiricism essay experience expressed feeling finds Frankfurt School freedom genteel Henry James Henry's hotel-spirit Hugo Münsterberg human ideal identity ideology imagination immanent impulse individual insistence intellectual James's Jamesian Letters liberal literary logic Lower East Side margin Marxism master Matthiessen mimesis mimetic mode modern moral Münsterberg nature nonidentity noted novel novelist object passion passive philosophy phrase pleasure political possible practice pragmatism Princess Casamassima progressivism psychic radical Randolph Bourne rationality reality refusal rejection relation remarks represent representation response Santayana says seeks selfhood sense sexual Simmel social society stance Steffens Strether suggests surrender theory things thought tradition Trilling Trilling's urban Walter Benjamin Whitman William James York
Népszerű szakaszok
168. oldal - Mine is no callous shell, I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop, They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me. I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy, To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
87. oldal - No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
227. oldal - It hung before him this morning, the vast bright Babylon, like some huge iridescent object, a jewel brilliant and hard, in which parts were not to be discriminated nor differences comfortably marked. It twinkled and trembled and melted together, and what seemed all surface one moment seemed all depth the next.
39. oldal - ... as he recognizes everything else, by certain subjective marks with which it affects him. When he gets the marks he may know that he has got the rationality. What then are the marks? A strong feeling of ease, peace, rest, is one of them. The transition from a state of puzzle and perplexity to rational comprehension is full of lively relief and pleasure.
34. oldal - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.
39. oldal - Our mind is so wedded to the process of seeing an other beside every item of its experience, that when the notion of an absolute datum is presented to it, it goes through its usual procedure and remains pointing at the void beyond, as if in that lay further matter for contemplation. In short, it spins for itself the further positive consideration of a nonentity enveloping the being of its datum; and as that leads nowhere, back recoils the thought toward its datum again.
300. oldal - Thus social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors — the individual, deriving his peculiar gifts from the play of physiological and infrasocial forces, but bearing all the power of initiative and origination in his hands; and, second, the social environment, with its power of adopting or rejecting both him and his gifts. Both factors are essential to change. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy...
121. oldal - ... wholeness within themselves, simply reverses the true state of things. The outward scene, if not fully organized, is relatively so in the corporateness which the machine and its technology have produced; the inner man is the jungle which can be subdued to order only as the forces of organization at work in externals are reflected in corresponding patterns of thought, imagination and emotion. The sick cannot heal themselves by means of their disease, and disintegrated individuals can achieve unity...