Cecil Rhodes and the Ego Ideal
1979; The MIT Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/203336
ISSN1530-9169
Autores Tópico(s)Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
ResumoCecil Rhodes and the Ego Ideal Cecil Rhodes' biographers have found it difficult to resist the temptation to call him a colossus. Both his achievements and his failures were sufficiently extravagant that the wonder of the ancient world which spanned the harbor at Rhodes has always suggested itself as a metaphor to epitomize the facts of his life. It has been less easy to capture his character and motivations. His biographers, beginning with Michell, have been intrigued by his personality but all have been baffled by the contradictions and discontinuities which they found. Their difficulty reflects in part the strong feelings of admiration and hatred which he aroused in his contemporaries. Their impressions form the primary sources of information about him. But it is also because he was indeed
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