Description
"Frieden draws heavily on works of intellectual history to survey the concepts of daimon and genius in ancient religious and mythological thought.
He then outlines the complex transformation in the 18th century that leaves genius midway between a transcendental and a psychological agency. This line age serves to orient four analyses of literary monologue (in Shakespeare, Coleridge, Poe, and Joyce). The issue highlighted by Frieden has come to the forefront through certain writings of Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida: namely, the determination of the individual subject in terms of the expressive spontaneity of an inner voice.
This book has the merit of combining a philosophical and a formalist approach in exploring a topic of high priority in current theoretical discussions." - Library Journal
He then outlines the complex transformation in the 18th century that leaves genius midway between a transcendental and a psychological agency. This line age serves to orient four analyses of literary monologue (in Shakespeare, Coleridge, Poe, and Joyce). The issue highlighted by Frieden has come to the forefront through certain writings of Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida: namely, the determination of the individual subject in terms of the expressive spontaneity of an inner voice.
This book has the merit of combining a philosophical and a formalist approach in exploring a topic of high priority in current theoretical discussions." - Library Journal
