The Defects of Perfectionism: Nietzsche, Eliot, and the Irrevocability of Wrong in Middlemarch.
The article discusses perfectionism in works of Friedrich Nietzche, and George Eliot. Topics include Eliot's secularized reconstruction of Christian morality to theoretical obsolescence; Nietzsche's self-mutilating attempt to salve bad conscience; and the moral criticism of "Middlemarch," which supp...
| Publicado en: | Philological Quarterly Vol. 96; no. 1; pp. 77 - 105 |
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Department of English, University of Iowa
Winter2017
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| Sumario: | The article discusses perfectionism in works of Friedrich Nietzche, and George Eliot. Topics include Eliot's secularized reconstruction of Christian morality to theoretical obsolescence; Nietzsche's self-mutilating attempt to salve bad conscience; and the moral criticism of "Middlemarch," which supposedly raises question of whether the novel accounts for the perfectionism. |
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