Impossible Individuality

Impossible Individuality

Author: Gerald N. Izenberg

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1992-06-03

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1400820669

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Studying major writers and philosophers--Schlegel and Schleiermacher in Germany, Wordsworth in England, and Chateaubriand in France--Gerald Izenberg shows how a combination of political, social, and psychological developments resulted in the modern concept of selfhood. More than a study of one national culture influencing another, this work goes to the heart of kindred intellectual processes in three European countries. Izenberg makes two persuasive and related arguments. The first is that the Romantics developed a new idea of the self as characterized by fundamentally opposing impulses: a drive to assert the authority of the self and expand that authority to absorb the universe, and the contradictory impulse to surrender to a greater idealized entity as the condition of the self's infinity. The second argument seeks to explain these paradoxes historically, showing how romantic individuality emerged as a compromise. Izenberg demonstrates how the Romantics retreated, in part, from a preliminary, radically activist ideal of autonomy they had worked out under the impact of the French Revolution. They had begun by seeing the individual self as the sole source of meaning and authority, but the convergence of crises in their personal lives with the crises of the revolution revealed this ideal as dangerously aggressive and self-aggrandizing. In reaction, the Romantics shifted their absolute claims for the self to the realm of creativity and imagination, and made such claims less dangerous by attributing totality to nature, art, lover, or state, which in return gave that totality back to the self.


Thomas Troward: Ultimate Collection

Thomas Troward: Ultimate Collection

Author: Thomas Troward

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2023-11-09

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat presents to you a meticulously edited Thomas Troward collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science The Dore Lectures on Mental Science The Creative Process in the Individual Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning The Law and the Word The Hidden Power and Other Papers on Mental Science


The Complete Works of Thomas Troward

The Complete Works of Thomas Troward

Author: Thomas Troward

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-12-03

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13:

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The Complete Works of Thomas Troward is a collection of essays and lectures that showcase Troward's philosophical ideas on metaphysics, spirituality, and the power of thought. Troward's writing style is eloquent and thought-provoking, drawing on a blend of Eastern and Western philosophies. His works reflect the New Thought movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing the importance of mental discipline and the creative power of the mind. Readers will find themselves immersed in Troward's profound insights on the nature of reality and the relationship between mind and matter. Thomas Troward was a British judge and a leading figure in the New Thought movement. His background in law and deep interest in spiritual matters led him to explore the connection between metaphysics and personal development. Troward's unique perspective and ability to bridge the gap between philosophy and spirituality make his works a valuable contribution to the study of mind and consciousness. I highly recommend The Complete Works of Thomas Troward to readers interested in exploring the power of the mind and seeking a deeper understanding of metaphysical principles. Troward's writings offer timeless wisdom and practical insights that continue to inspire and enlighten readers to this day.


Hegel's 'Individuality'

Hegel's 'Individuality'

Author: Martin Donougho

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-10-02

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 3031213696

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This book explores an overlooked area in Hegel studies: his use of ‘individuality’ (Individualität). Hegel joined a lively conversation, from Leibniz to Romanticism and beyond, about this novel concept/phenomenon. Successive chapters track Hegel’s engagement, in such texts as the Phenomenology, Encyclopedia, and Aesthetics. Hegel’s system tends to follow a syllogistic logic (universal, particular, singular), but ‘individuality’ departs from the norm. The category enacts a certain pragmatics (as against semantics or syntactics) regarding tacit assumptions at work or implicit terms of address, which requires active participation by a thinking subject charged with discerning individuality (which bars resort to explicit rules). The category reflexively implicates the user even in presuming an objective context. ‘Individuality’ should not be confused with ‘individualism,’ wholly distinct in origin. Moreover, Hegel’s Aesthetics embraces a paradoxical anachronism. Like ‘art’ itself, ‘individuality’ emerged as an essentially modern category, though one transferred to the past and to distant cultures.


Identity

Identity

Author: Gerald Izenberg

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2019-03-08

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 0812224531

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Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea is the first comprehensive history of identity as the answer to the question, "who, or what, am I?" It covers the century from the end of World War I, when identity in this sense first became an issue for writers and philosophers, to 2010, when European political leaders declared multiculturalism a failure just as Canada, which pioneered it, was hailing its success. Along the way the book examines Erik Erikson's concepts of psychological identity and identity crisis, which made the word famous; the turn to collective identity and the rise of identity politics in Europe and America; varieties and theories of group identity; debates over accommodating collective identities within liberal democracy; the relationship between individual and group identity; the postmodern critique of identity as a concept; and the ways it nonetheless transformed the social sciences and altered our ideas of ethics. At the same time the book is an argument for the validity and indispensability of identity, properly understood. Identity was not a concept before the twentieth century because it was taken for granted. The slaughter of World War I undermined the honored identities of prewar Europe and, as a result, the idea of identity as something objective and stable was thrown into question at the same time that people began to sense that it was psychologically and socially necessary. We can't be at home in our bodies, act effectively in the world, or interact comfortably with others without a stable sense of who we are. Gerald Izenberg argues that, while it is a mistake to believe that our identities are givens that we passively discover about ourselves, decreed by God, destiny, or nature, our most important identities have an objective foundation in our existential situation as bodies, social beings, and creatures who aspire to meaning and transcendence, as well as in the legitimacy of our historical particularity.


THOMAS TROWARD Premium Collection: 6 Books in one Edition

THOMAS TROWARD Premium Collection: 6 Books in one Edition

Author: Thomas Troward

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2019-03-24

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 8027303672

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e-artnow presents the complete works of one of the most notable representatives of the New Thought Movement, Thomas Troward: Contents: The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science The Dore Lectures on Mental Science The Creative Process in the Individual Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning The Law and the Word The Hidden Power and Other Papers on Mental Science


The Wisdom of Thomas Troward

The Wisdom of Thomas Troward

Author: Thomas Troward

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 1627931732

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Included here are The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science, The Dore Lectures on Mental Science, The Law and the Word, and The Creative Process in the Individual. Thomas Troward was an early New Thought writer who had an immense impact on those who would follow. Ernest Holmes, Frederick Bailes, Joseph Murphy, and Emmett Fox cited him as a major influence, and Genevieve Behrend was his student. It is impossible to over estimate his importance to the New Thought movement. His intense fusion of Eastern and Western philosophy is unmatched. The Law and the Word explores the connection between thought energy, scientific reasoning, and creative power. The Creative Process in the Individual scientifically explains the sequence of creative activity starting from the beginnings of life through the development of mankind. The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science are required reading for anyone wishing to understand and control the power of the mind.


The Power in You

The Power in You

Author: Thomas Troward

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 0698195167

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The collected works of the most impactful New Thought figure of the twentieth-century – a must read for every student of metaphysics. This landmark volume collects all six of Thomas Troward’s books on the creative powers of the mind – and, as a special bonus, includes “Troward’s Teachings in Condensed Form” by Harry Gaze, which digests the visionary’s ideas into 58 aphorisms. Troward’s ideas about the power of directed thought prefigured some of today’s key advances in neuroplasticity, placebo studies, and cognitive psychology. His writings were a major influence on figures ranging from Ernest Holmes to early members of Alcoholics Anonymous to makers of The Secret. The works of Thomas Troward have been previously been dispersed among piecemeal volumes – The Power in You is the first authoritative anthology of his writings. This volume includes: The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science (1904, revised 1909) The Doré Lectures on Mental Science (1909) The Creative Process in the Individual (1910, expanded 1915) Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning (1913) The Law and the Word (1917) The Hidden Power (1921) Troward's Teachings in Condensed Form by Harry Gaze (1958)


Making the Case

Making the Case

Author: Robert Leventhal

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-11-18

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 3110643464

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One hundred years before Freud’s striking psychoanalytic case-histories, the narrative psychological case-history emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century in Germany as an epistemic genre (Gianna Pomata) that cut across the disciplines of medicine, philosophy, law, psychology, anthropology and literature. It differed significantly from its predecessors in theology, jurisprudence, and medicine. Rather than subsuming the individual under an established classification, moral precept, category, or type, the narrative psychological case-history endeavored to articulate the individual in its very individuality, thereby constructing a ‘self’ in its irreducible singularity. The presentation and analysis of several significant psychological case-histories, their theory and practice, as well as the controversies surrounding their utility, validity, and function for an envisioned ‘science of the soul’ constitutes the core of the book. Close and ‘distant’ (F. Moretti) readings of key texts and figures in the discussion regarding ‘empirical psychology’ (psychologia empirica), experiential psychology (Erfahrungsseelenkunde) and ‘medical psychology’ (medizinische Psychologie) such as Christian Wolff, J.C. Krüger, J.C. Bolton, Ernst Nicolai, J.A. Unzer, J.G. Sulzer, J.G. Herder, Friedrich Schiller, Jacob Friedrich Abel, Marcus Herz, Karl Philipp Moritz, J.C. Reil, Ernst Platner and Immanuel Kant provide the disciplinary, historical-scientific context within which this genre comes to the fore. As the first systematic argument concerning the early history of this genre, my thesis is that the psychological case-history evolved as part of a pastoral apparatus of care, concern, guidance and direction for what it fashioned as the ‘unique’ individual, as the discursive medium in a process by which the soul became a ‘self’. The narrative psychological case-history was in fact a meta-genre that transcended traditional boundaries of history and fiction, medicine and philosophy, psychology and anthropology, and sought, for the first time, to explicitly link the experience, history, memory, fantasy, previous trauma or suffering of a unique individual to illness, deviance, aberration and crime. In a word, it demonstrated, as Freud later said of his own case-histories in Studies on Hysteria, “the intimate relation between the history of suffering and the symptoms of illness” (“die innige Beziehung zwischen Leidensgeschichte und Krankheitssymptome”). This genre not only had a profound and far-reaching effect on the evolution of German and European literature – one thinks of the rich traditions of the Novella and the Fallgeschichte from Goethe, Büchner, R. L Stevenson, Edgar Allen Poe and Chekhov to Kafka and beyond – but in shaping modern literature, the clinical sciences, and even popular culture. The book should therefore be of interest not merely to Germanists, modern European cultural historians, historians of science, and literary historians, but also those interested in the history of medicine and psychology, the origins of psychoanalysis, the history of anthropology, cultural studies, and, more generally, the history of ideas.


The Poetics of Palliation

The Poetics of Palliation

Author: Brittany Pladek

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2019-05-24

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1786942836

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The Poetics of Palliation argues that Romanticism developed richer literary therapies than its contemporary reception remembers. By reading Romantic writers against Georgian medical ethics, Poetics recovers their models of literature as comfort and sustenance, challenging a health humanities tradition that sees literary therapy primarily as cure.