272 Pages
by
Routledge
271 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book reassesses Taine as the very model of the European intellectual in the second half of the 19th century. The author draws on unpublished manuscripts and letters to reveal a self-disguised, tentative and ironic mentality very like the one Taine described in his psychological writings. These qualities are reflected not only in his own ludic response to his times, but in that of many fellow... Read more
Introduction; 1: The Formation of a Self; 2: The History of the Self; 3: Germination of a New Psychology; 4: Defeat of a Revolutionary; 5: Deflection and La Critique; 6: Consolidation and the Aesthetic Judgement; 7: De l’Intelligence A Second Empire Self; 8: The Price of Detachment; Conclusion
Biography
Hilary Nias
