Dualisms is a tour-de-force, encompassing intellectual history, philosophy, theology, and literary criticism. It provides fresh perspectives on some of the most famous intellectual debates in all of literature, and considers the implications that they continue to have for the study of the humanities in the modern world.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-444) and index
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- 801
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- Q85 2007eb
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Introduction 20
- 1. Two Intellectual Nations 20
- 2. Names 23
- 3. Paradigms of Development 26
- Chapter 1: Erasmus and Luther: First and Foremost, a Pattern Established 40
- 1. Public Intellectuals and Reform 40
- 2. The Gifts of History 42
- 3. Two ‘Moments’: Erasmus 50
- 4. Arguments, Stylistic Tropes, and the Carousel of Erasmus’s Mind 57
- 5. Acclaim and Controversy 67
- 6. Luther’s Calling 73
- 7. The Great Year 82
- 8. The Gathering Heat of Argument 92
- 9. The Unending Debate 100
- Chapter 2: Voltaire and Rousseau: Never a Peace 115
- 1. Three Phases 115
- 2. Original Affinities 118
- 3. The Agonist of the Age 123
- 4. Voltaire: From Mundanity to Cultural Greatness 126
- 5. Rousseau’s Break Through: The First Discours 146
- 6. A Dualism Determined 156
- 7. Rousseau’s Religious Genius: ‘Un novateur contre les novateurs’ 162
- 8. Candide: The Necessary Response 173
- 9. Rousseau Out on a Limb 177
- 10. Émile: A Reconstructed Rousseau 183
- 11. Voltaire on Attack 190
- 12. The Wages of Persecution: The Confessions 197
- Chapter 3: Passages of History: From Mundanity to Philosophy 204
- Chapter 4: Turgenev and Dostoevsky: ‘What Is There in Common?’ 222
- 1. Separate Accounts 222
- 2. Displacement, New Intellectual Plateaus, and Recurrence 226
- 3. Success and Its Consequences 241
- 4. Turgenev Between Hamlet and Quixote 246
- 5. Turgenev’s Major Novels: Culture and Criticism 252
- 6. The Enlarged Scope of Ideas 270
- 7. Dissension and Its Causes 278
- 8. The Great Emergence 283
- 9. Thought Transformed 302
- Chapter 5: Sartre and Camus: ‘Revolt Changes Camps’ 311
- 1. Preamble to the Review 311
- 2. Cameos in Triage 316
- 3. Readjustments 321
- 4. Camus in Triplicate 325
- 5. Worlds in Common 333
- 6. Second Generation Modernists: Emergence and Paradox 338
- 7. The Sartrean Moment 344
- 8. Sartre, a Major Novelist 353
- 9. Camus: A ‘Cabeza clara’ 363
- 10. Sartre of the Antinomies 378
- 11. The Great Debate 389
- 12. Final Words: The Fall and Words 395
- 13. Hybridity Prevails 409
- Epilogue 413
- Dualisms and the Humanities 413
- Notes 418
- Works Cited 450
- Index 462
- A 462
- B 462
- C 462
- D 463
- E 464
- F 465
- G 465
- H 465
- I 465
- J 465
- K 465
- L 465
- M 466
- N 466
- O 466
- P 466
- Q 466
- R 466
- S 467
- T 467
- V 468
- W 468
- Z 468
