Ambition
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8384-7 (ISBN)
Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidation—as when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the human species. While philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and world literature have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of its shaping role in human history.
Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, ranging from the works of Homer through Shakespeare, Freud, and Kafka and from the history of ancient Greece and Rome to the Italian Renaissance and up to the present day (to modernity and the current neoliberal era), Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition — that insatiable hunter in the mirror — and power.
Eckart Goebel is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Previously, he was Chair and Professor of the German Department at New York University, USA. He is the author of seven books, including Beyond Discontent (Bloomsbury, 2012). James C. Wagner, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Department of German at New York University, USA.
Introduction
I. Semantics of Ambition
II. Eris - Agon - Ambition
III. Ambition in Modernity
1. A New Era of Ambition (Jacob Burckhardt)
2. The Ambition of Equals (Alexis de Tocqueville)
3. Critique of Success (Gustav Ichheiser)
4. Critique of Contemplation (Karl Mannheim)
5. The Ambitious Spoilsport (Roger Caillois)
6. Hesiod’s Return in the Achieving Society (David McClelland)
7. Burning Ambition (Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler)
The Ambition to Reject Ambition: An Afterword with a View to Montaigne
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.06.2022 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | James C. Wagner |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-8384-1 / 1501383841 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-8384-7 / 9781501383847 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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