Publisher's Synopsis
Sartor Resartus is an 1836 novel written by Thomas Carlyle. The novel is based on the thought and early life of a German philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdröckh (author of a tome entitled Clothes: Their Origin and Influence) who also provides fragmentary biographical material on the philosopher. The work is, in part, a parody of Hegel, and of German Idealism more generally. However, Teufelsdröckh is also a literary device with which Carlyle can express difficult truths.
