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DO NÃO AO SIM ETERNOS OU SUBJETIVIDADE E VONTADE NO SARTOR RESARTUS DE CARLYLE
Authors: Gabriel Guedes Rossatti

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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.