Art, culture, and great thinkers

2 books

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in HistoryThomas Carlyle · 1841A collection of six 1840 lectures by Thomas Carlyle examining great men throughout history, including Odin, Mahomet, Dante, Luther, Johnson, and Cromwell, arguing that heroes in forms such as divinity, prophet, poet, priest, man of letters, and king shape universal history.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Representative Men: Seven LecturesRalph Waldo Emerson · 1850A collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1850, examining great men and their uses to society through portraits of Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية