On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in HistoryUniversity of California Press, 1993 M06 7 - 622 pages In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and social critic, championed the importance of the individual in history. Published the following year and eventually translated into fifteen languages, this imaginative work of history, comparative religion, and literature is the most influential statement of a man who came to be thought of as a secular prophet and the "undoubted head of English letters" (Emerson). His vivid portraits of Muhammad, Dante, Luther, Napoleon—just a few of the individuals Carlyle celebrated for changing the course of world history—made On Heroes a challenge to the anonymous social forces threatening to control life during the Industrial Revolution. In eight volumes, The Strouse Edition will provide the texts of Carlyle's major works edited for the first time to contemporary scholarly standards. For the general reader, its detailed introductions and annotations will offer insight into the author's thought and a reconstruction of the diverse and often arcane Carlylean sources. |
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... Voltaire's he Fanatisme ou Mahomet le prophete ( 1741 ) . Even the partial rehabilitation of Muhammad's reputation at the hands of Gibbon , " the smoothly shaven historian so ironically civil to Christianity , " 150 was undertaken for ...
... Voltaire's he Fanatisme ou Mahomet le prophete ( 1741 ) . Even the partial rehabilitation of Muhammad's reputation at the hands of Gibbon , " the smoothly shaven historian so ironically civil to Christianity , " 150 was undertaken for ...
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... Voltaire is a " withered Pontiff of Encyclope- dism , " 262 helping to kill superstition , but unable to provide a positive alternative to the system of beliefs he had undermined . Even Johnson could offer only the advice of " Moral ...
... Voltaire is a " withered Pontiff of Encyclope- dism , " 262 helping to kill superstition , but unable to provide a positive alternative to the system of beliefs he had undermined . Even Johnson could offer only the advice of " Moral ...
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... Voltaire ; the " old antediluvian feeling , " forcing it- self " into unexpected shapes , asserts its existence in the newest man : and the Chaldeans or old Persians , with their Zerdusht , differ only in vesture and dialect from the ...
... Voltaire ; the " old antediluvian feeling , " forcing it- self " into unexpected shapes , asserts its existence in the newest man : and the Chaldeans or old Persians , with their Zerdusht , differ only in vesture and dialect from the ...
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Contents
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Note on the Text | lxxxi |
On Heroes HeroWorship and the Heroic in History | 1 |
Notes | 227 |
Works Cited | 393 |
Textual Apparatus | 419 |
Index | 487 |
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