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...

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Publicado en:Philological Quarterly Vol. 96; no. 1; pp. 77 - 105
Autor principal: JOUDREY, THOMAS J.
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Publicado: Department of English, University of Iowa Winter2017
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