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.
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