Thomas Carlyle

ISBN-13: 9781515228783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 88 str.

Hector Carsewell MacPherson

Opis

'A great man, ' says Hegel, 'condemns the world to the task of explaining him.' Emphatically does the remark apply to Thomas Carlyle. When he began to leave his impress in literature, he was treated as a confusing and inexplicable element. Opinion oscillated between the view of James Mill, that Carlyle was an insane rhapsodist, and that of Jeffrey, that he was afflicted with a chronic craze for singularity