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Search for Self in Other in Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre (Hardcover, New edition)
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Search for Self in Other in Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures, 197
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Search for Self in Other in Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and
Sartre examines how these five theorists recognized that searching
for self in an idealized other can lead to a variety of
perversions. Cicero warned against seeking friends whom we regard
as being everything that we are not: he advised to first be a good
person and then to seek other. Ovid showed that Narcissus, who had
no close friends to reinforce his identity, was oblivious to his
own assets and tried to live vicariously through other. Rousseau
explained why modern man, while seated in a theater, feels
compassion and is transported by pity, anxiety and fear for the
welfare of fictional characters as if it were his own. Diderot
showed how the absence of self can be exploited by the powerful to
reshape the minds of the weak. He proves that given the right
environment and length of time, any one of us, like the victims in
The Nun, could just as easily have his life ruined. Sartre reminds
us that it is impossible to be-in-exterior. We see ourselves
according to the way that others perceive us based on conditioning
and prejudices. Sartre untangles the snarled web of misperception
of self that arises from "the look" of the other. This book
addresses man's growing understanding of the death of self in the
mirror of other across the corridors of time - from Narcissus'
ancient pool, to Cicero's Roman forum, to Rousseau's Parisian
theater, to Diderot's convent in The Nun, to Sartre's
twentieth-century hell.
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