Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle nos dice: «Trabaja y confía», así se construye el destino, pues la naturaleza no forma criatura alguna sin infundirle al propio tiempo la fuerza de resistencia que necesita para defend

Dieses eBook: "Die Franzosische Revolution" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfaltig korrekturgelesen.Die Franzosische Revolution ist das erste umfangreiche historische Werk Thomas Carlyles, seine glanzend und hinreiend geschriebene Geschichte der Franzosischen Revolution (The French revolution) aus dem Jahre 1837.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) war ein schottischer Essayist und Historiker, der im viktorianischen Grobritannien sehr einflussreich war.

One of the most vital and pregnant books in our modern literature, "Sartor Resartus" is also, in structure and form, one of the most daringly original. It defies exact classification. It is not a philosophic treatise. It is not an autobiography. It is not a romance. Yet in a sense it is all these combined. Its underlying purpose is to expound in broad outline certain ideas which lay at the root of Carlyles whole reading of life. But he does not elect to set these forth in regular methodic fashion, after the manner of one writing a systematic essay. He presents his philosophy in dramatic form and in a picturesque human setting. He invents a certain Herr Diogenes Teufelsdrockh, an erudite German professor of "Allerley-Wissenschaft," or Things in General, in the University of Weissnichtwo, of whose colossal work, "Die Kleider, Ihr Werden und Wirken" (On Clothes: Their Origin and Influence), he represents himself as being only the student and interpreter. With infinite humour he explains how this prodigious volume came into his hands; how he was struck with amazement by its encyclopdic learning, and the depth and suggestiveness of its thought; and how he determined that it was his special mission to introduce its ideas to the British public. But how was this to be done? As a mere bald abstract of the original would never do, the would-be apostle was for a time in despair. But at length the happy thought occurred to him of combining a condensed statement of the main principles of the new philosophy with some account of the philosophers life and character. Thus the work took the form of a "Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh," and as such it was offered to the world. Here, of course, we reach the explanation of its fantastic title"Sartor Resartus," or the Tailor Patched: the tailor being the great German "Clothes-philosopher," and the patching being done by Carlyle as his English editor...

The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, first published in 1837 (with a revised edition in print by 1857), charts the course of the French Revolution from 1789 to the height of the Reign of Terror (179394) and culminates in 1795. A massive undertaking which draws together a wide variety of sources, Carlyles historydespite the unusual style in which it is writtenis considered to be an authoritative account of the early course of the Revolution.

We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our worlds business, how they have shaped themselves in the worlds history, what ideas men formed of them, what work they did;on Heroes, namely, and on their reception and performance; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human affairs. Too evidently this is a large topic; deserving quite other treatment than we can expect to give it at present. A large topic; indeed, an illimitable one; wide as Universal History itself. For, as I take it, Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into the world: the soul of the whole worlds history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these.