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- Introduction
- I. Conscience and Consciousness: Dualism or Unity?
- Etymology
- The Historical and Philosophical Foreground
- The Three Trees: Good, Evil, and Knowledge
- The Possibilities of Consciousness
- II. The Price of Consciousness: Goethe’s Faust and Byron’s Manfred
- The Conscience of Manfred
- The Consciousness of Faust
- III. The Risks of Consciousness: Goethe’s Werther and Wordsworth’s Prelude
- Werther’s Distempered Idyl
- Wordsworth’s Tempered Idyl
- IV. Some Versions of Consciousness and Egotism: Hegel, Dostoevsky’s Underground Man, and Peer Gynt
- Preliminary Note
- The Underground Man and Hegel’s “Unhappy Consciousness” and “The Beautiful Soul”
- Peer Gynt: Consciousness and Affirmative Egotism
- V. Consciousness and Will: Poe and Mann
- Will: The Struggle Will: The Defeat (Buddenbrooks)
- VI. The Tyranny of Conscience: Arnold, James, and Conrad’s Lord Jim
- Arnold’s Search for a “Cultured” Zarathustra
- James’s Renunciation Fables: Roderick Hudson, an Example
- Lord Jim’s “Romantic Conscience”
- VII. Towards a Genealogy of the Modern Problem: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Freud
- VIII. A Case of Conscience: Kafka’s The Trial, Hesse’s Steppenwolf, and Camus’s The Fall
- The Judicial Conscience Drama of Josef K. and Hegel’s Version of the Trial of Socrates
- Harry Hailer’s Second Bildung
- The Fortunate Fall of Jean-Baptiste Clamence
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
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