From no to everlasting yea or subjectivity and will in Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus

• Autor(a) principal: Rossatti, Gabriel Guedes
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Griot : Revista de Filosofia
• Texto Completo: http://www3.ufrb.edu.br/seer/index.php/griot/article/view/493
• topic: Existência; Liberdade; Descrença; Maravilhoso.; Existence; Freedom; Unbelief; Wonder.

Between the months of November of 1833 and August of 1834 was first published in installments Thomas Carlyle’s Bildungsroman Sartor Resartus. Indeed, deeply influenced by the german romantic movement, and more particularly by Goethe, with whom he corresponded, such romance was Carlyle’s first mature attempt to draw british readers to the task of subjective upbuilding (Bildung) as understood by the former. In this sense, the present article seeks to elucidate Carlyle’s conception of self-knowledge or self-composition, as well as its counterpart, that is, the ideology of modernity, for Sartor Resartus was polemically devised as an answer to such ideology. Thus, we shall argue that Sartor Resartus can be seen as a decisively existentialist piece of writing, once it has as one of its main themes precisely the human existence.