Thomas Carlyle Resartus
Kerry, Paul E.; Hill, Marylu
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Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
One hundred fifty years ago, Thomas Carlyle was the intellectual gadfly whom many disagreed with but everyone read. Statesmen, philosophers, novelists, historians — anyone wrestling with the most vexed issues of modern life — had to come to grips with his writings. The book reassesses Carlyle for a new generation in no less serious circumstances. Readers rediscover a Carlyle who challenges an increasingly self-absorbed society, rails against the excesses of Capitalist greed, teaches "Captains of Industry" to embrace a new kind of leadership, restores a meaningful connection to the past, and draws our gaze to genuine heroism. This volume also ... Read more
One hundred fifty years ago, Thomas Carlyle was the intellectual gadfly whom many disagreed with but everyone read. Statesmen, philosophers, novelists, historians — anyone wrestling with the most vexed issues of modern life — had to come to grips with his writings. The book reassesses Carlyle for a new generation in no less serious circumstances. Readers rediscover a Carlyle who challenges an increasingly self-absorbed society, rails against the excesses of Capitalist greed, teaches "Captains of Industry" to embrace a new kind of leadership, restores a meaningful connection to the past, and draws our gaze to genuine heroism. This volume also ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611474886
SKU
V9781611474886
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About Kerry, Paul E.; Hill, Marylu
Paul E. Kerry is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, visiting fellow at The Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations and research associate at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Marylu Hill is assistant professor in the Villanova Center for Liberal Education at Villanova University.
Reviews for Thomas Carlyle Resartus
The editor’s introduction offers a useful contextualization of Carlyle’s work in relation to key debates and developments regarding historical and political discourse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The task of current Carlyle scholarship, according to the editors, is to “examine more carefully the complexities, challenges, and depths” of Carlyle’s work. The essays in the volume succeed in ... Read more