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Ambition: An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise
We describe people who are "consumed" or "devoured" by ambition as if by a predator or an...
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We describe people who are "consumed" or "devoured" by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno.
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.Author: Eckart Goebel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 06/30/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781501383830
About the Author
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 is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of German at New York University, USA.This title is only available via back order
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