Sartor Resartus: ...the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh - The Three Books, Complete with Appendix (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781387805891)

Sartor Resartus is a parody novel about a German philosopher - though intended to be comic, it contains many of Thomas Carlyle's most poignant philosophic thoughts. First published in 1836, the text is richly contemplative and biographical in tone - claiming to be an account of the formative years of Diogenes Teufelsdröckh, a fictional German philosopher whose name translates to " 'god-born devil-dung". His long-winded musings are the subject of scrutiny by a sceptical English editor who himself has at hand some biographical insights. Designed as a send-up of German Idealism, Sartor Resartus is itself a philosophic work and an ambitious literary exercise. The commentary that one should become religious due to the very existence of meaning and the ability to disdain evil led many commentators to appraise the text as existential.

Author: Thomas Carlyle
ISBN-10: 1387805894
ISBN-13: 9781387805891
Publisher: Lulu.com
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2018
Pages: 138
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d