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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

Thomas Carlyle

PhilosophyEnglish
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Sartor Resartus, 'the tailor re-tailored', presents itself as an English editor's commentary on a vast, chaotic German book about the philosophy of clothes…

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Author
Thomas Carlyle
Category
Philosophy
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

Sartor Resartus, 'the tailor re-tailored', presents itself as an English editor's commentary on a vast, chaotic German book about the philosophy of clothes, written by an eccentric professor, Diogenes Teufelsdröckh, of the University of Weissnichtwo, 'Know-not-where'. Clothes, it argues, are only symbols: institutions, customs and even the body are garments of the spirit. Through the professor's confused life story, the book tells of a passage from the 'Everlasting No' of despair to the 'Everlasting Yea' of faith and work.

Context and significance

Thomas Carlyle published the book as a magazine serial in 1833 and 1834. Strange, comic and visionary, it influenced Emerson and the American Transcendentalists, who brought it out as a book before it appeared in Britain. Read Carlyle's The French Revolution.

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