Search for Self in Other in Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre

Buch | Hardcover
207 Seiten
2011 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-1595-0 (ISBN)

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Search for Self in Other in Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre - Mary Efrosini Gregory
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Examines how Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre theorists recognized that searching for self in an idealized other can lead to a variety of perversions. This title addresses man's growing understanding of death of self in mirror of other across corridors of time from Narcissus' ancient pool, to Diderot's convent in "The Nun".
Search for Self in Other in Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre examines how these five theorists recognized that searching for self in an idealized other can lead to a variety of perversions. Cicero warned against seeking friends whom we regard as being everything that we are not: he advised to first be a good person and then to seek other. Ovid showed that Narcissus, who had no close friends to reinforce his identity, was oblivious to his own assets and tried to live vicariously through other. Rousseau explained why modern man, while seated in a theater, feels compassion and is transported by pity, anxiety and fear for the welfare of fictional characters as if it were his own. Diderot showed how the absence of self can be exploited by the powerful to reshape the minds of the weak. He proves that given the right environment and length of time, any one of us, like the victims in The Nun, could just as easily have his life ruined. Sartre reminds us that it is impossible to be-in-exterior. We see ourselves according to the way that others perceive us based on conditioning and prejudices. Sartre untangles the snarled web of misperception of self that arises from «the look» of the other.
This book addresses man’s growing understanding of the death of self in the mirror of other across the corridors of time – from Narcissus’ ancient pool, to Cicero’s Roman forum, to Rousseau’s Parisian theater, to Diderot’s convent in The Nun, to Sartre’s twentieth-century hell.

Mary Efrosini Gregory received her BA and MA in French from Queens College and her M.Phil. in French from Columbia University. She is the author of Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species (2007), An Eastern Orthodox View of Pascal (2008), Evolutionism in Eighteenth-Century French Thought (2008), Miracles of the Orthodox Church (2009), Freedom in French Enlightenment Thought (2010) and Microwave Experiment: A True Story of Government Testing on a United States Customs Officer (2011). Three other books, Microwave War: The Government’s Preparation for the Police State and Extension of Empire, The Science behind Microwave War, and Christianity and Twenty-First Century Science, are in the prepublication stage.

Reihe/Serie Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 197
Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 197
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 230 mm
Gewicht 430 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Romanistik
Schlagworte Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC—Criticism and interpretation • Diderot, Denis, 1713–1784—Criticism and interpretation • Ovidius Naso, Publius, 43 BC-18 AD—Criticism and interpretation • Philosophy • Philosophy, French—18th century • Philosophy, French—20th century • Philosophy, Roman—1st century • Poetry, Roman—1st century BC • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712–1778—Criticism and interpretation • Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905–1980—Criticism and interpretation
ISBN-10 1-4331-1595-6 / 1433115956
ISBN-13 978-1-4331-1595-0 / 9781433115950
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