I. The Historical Background of Sartor Resartus.- 1. The Kantian Compromise.- 2. Kant, Fichte, and the Dilemma of Idealism.- II. Sartor Resartus and the Historicity of Idealism.- 1. The Style of Dogmatic Idealism.- 2. Carlyle’s “British Reader” and the Structure of Sartor Resartus.- III. Carlyle and Hegel.- List of Texts Cited.