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Hedonism and the Hobbesian: the dichotomy of the creator in a European literary State of Nature

Harry Taylor

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Sekundarstufe I und II

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Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 74, University of Warwick, language: English, abstract: This essay aims to address the dichotomy faced by the ‘creator’ in the European novel – a collision between the fundamental desire to strive for immortality by projecting a shadow of oneself through time, or to adopt a hedonistic disregard for convention born from a failure (or unwillingness) to achieve the aforementioned compulsion.

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hedonism, european, hobbesian, state, nature