 | Thomas Carlyle - 1907 - 442 sider
...CARLYLES TEACHINGS IN HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP The main thesis of the book is that " Universal History is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here ; j' or, stating the same idea from a different point of view, that •' in all times and places the... | |
 | Sava Alexander Vojcanin - 330 sider
...exaggerated when he included "Hero Worship" in the title of his book since, for him, "Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men "94 A more circumspect study of heroes emphasizes "the vicarious gratification of the [people's] yearnings... | |
 | Gustavo Pérez Firmat - 1990 - 416 sider
...Hero-W>rship, and the Heroic in History, ed. Archibald MacMechan (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1901), i: "the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of Great Men who have worked here." 24. Angel Rama compares the two areas of heaviest European immigration... | |
 | Piotr Sztompka - 1991 - 236 sider
...universal significance. A radically opposite choice is made by Carlyle who proclaims: 'Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world,...the History of the Great Men who have worked here' (in Hook 1955: 14). There are other candidates for this elevated role of hegemonic agent. For some... | |
 | D. A. Brading - 1991 - 782 sider
...IV In his lectures on heroes and hero-worship, Thomas Carlyle declared that 'Universal History ... is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.' In politics the prime task of the hero was to act as 'the missionary of Order', striving to master... | |
 | Reed Whittemore - 1993 - 294 sider
...of the New York Historical Society, and at eighty-two he founded the American Ethnological Society. history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of Great Men who have worked here." But when Carlyle raged against America in the sixties, Henry (who... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1993 - 638 sider
...Divinity," that the "History of the world is but the Biography of great men," and that universal history "is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here."296 This clear enunciation of the "great man theory of history" has frequently been taken out... | |
 | Maria Grever - 1994 - 438 sider
...de titel OH Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History werden gepubliceerd. 'Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of Great Men who have worked here', zo was hij zijn eerste voordracht begonnen.' Enkele decennia later... | |
 | Robert C. Tucker - 1995 - 196 sider
...extremes: on the one hand, the position of Carlyle, in Heroes and Hero-Worship, that "Universal History ... is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here," and, on the other hand, the position of the Spencerians, Marxists, and others who have attached little... | |
 | Peter Mackridge - 1996 - 218 sider
...lectures 'On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History', with the statement that 'Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world,...the History of the Great Men who have worked here'. That is very much a nineteenthcentury view, but it echoes an assumption of the early Greeks, that the... | |
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I take it, universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here. 
