On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Carlyle, T. (1840). On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1840

Link

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1091/1091-h/1091-h.htm

Cited from

history_historiography

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Primes

• Great Man Theory
  • Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) is the paradigmatic statement of the position: "The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

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