Reseña del libro "Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh (en Inglés)"
Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog-hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated, -it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect: Lagrange, it is well known, has proved that the Planetary System, on this scheme, will endure forever; Laplace, still more cunningly, even guesses that it could not have been made on any other scheme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Logbooks can be better kept; and water-transport of all kinds has grown more commodious. Of Geology and Geognosy we know enough: what with the labors of our Werners and Huttons, what with the ardent genius of their disciples, it has come about that now, to many a Royal Society, the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the cooking of a dumpling; concerning which last, indeed, there have been minds to whom the question, How the apples were got in, presented difficulties. Why mention our disquisitions on the Social Contract, on the Standard of Taste, on the Migrations of the Herring? Then, have we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors? Man's whole life and environment have been laid open and elucidated; scarcely a fragment or fibre of his Soul, Body, and Possessions, but has been probed, dissected, distilled, desiccated, and scientifically decomposed: our spiritual Faculties, of which it appears there are not a few, have their Stewarts, Cousins, Royer Collards: every cellular, vascular, muscular Tissue glories in its Lawrences, Majendies, Bichats.
Thomas Carlyle (Thomas Carlyle, nacido el 4 de diciembre de 1795 en Ecclefechan, Escocia, y fallecido el 5 de febrero de 1881 en Londres) fue un ensayista, historiador y pensador clave de la era victoriana. Formado en la Universidad de Edimburgo, inició su carrera como profesor antes de consolidarse como escritor. Su obra se caracteriza por un estilo denso y retórico, así como por su visión crítica de la sociedad industrial y su interés en el liderazgo moral y espiritual. Fue una figura influyente en el pensamiento del siglo XIX, con una fuerte presencia en los debates intelectuales de su tiempo.
Entre sus obras más destacadas se encuentran Sartor Resartus, The French Revolution: A History y On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (conocido en español como Los héroes), donde desarrolla su teoría del “gran hombre” como motor de la historia. Sus escritos influyeron en autores posteriores y en corrientes de pensamiento político y filosófico, aunque también generaron controversia por sus posturas conservadoras. Su legado permanece como una referencia compleja dentro del ensayo histórico y la crítica social.
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