On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-"The history of the world is the biography of great men." During the month of May 1840, Thomas Carlyle delivered six lectures on six different days on the theme of heroes. A year later, in 1841, the compilation of those speeches in a book with the title On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History was published in London (On the heroes, the cult of the hero and the heroic in history). The hero of Carlyle is that individual attached, rooted and driven by the cause of Reality, Acts, which gives his life to fight against Falsehood and Appearances. In part, for Thomas Carlyle, Humanity advances in History thanks to the appearance of great men, the heroes, who, with their action and word, mark the future of all other men. From the remote times of Nordic paganism to him, much closer to the author.The eighteenth century, which Carlyle disparages the skeptical century; from the birth of Islam to the French Revolution; About heroes includes in his analysis, studied under the categories of the hero as god, prophet, poet, priest, man of letters or king, such diverse characters as Odin, Thor, Muhammad, Dante, Shakespeare, Luther, John Knox, Samuel Johnson Rousseau, Robert Burns, Oliver Cromwell or Napoleon.