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Making Way for Genius - The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New (Hardcover)
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Making Way for Genius - The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New (Hardcover)
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Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities
-Germaine de Stael, Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier-Kathleen Kete
creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in
post-Revolutionary France. While in the old regime the
traditionalist view of ambition prevailed-that is, ambition as
morally wrong unless subsumed into a corporate whole-the new regime
was marked by a rising tide of competitive individualism. Greater
opportunities for personal advancement, however, were shadowed by
lingering doubts about the moral value of ambition. Kete identifies
three strategies used to overcome the ethical "burden" of ambition:
romantic genius (Stael), secular vocation (Stendhal), and
post-mythic destiny (Cuvier). In each case, success would seem to
be driven by forces outside one's control. She concludes by
examining the still relevant (and still unresolved) conundrum of
the relationship of individual desires to community needs, which
she identifies as a defining characteristic of the modern world.
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