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Article: Carlyle: between biblical exegesis and romantic hermeneutics.(writer Thomas Carlyle)
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- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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In a review article of 1891, Wilhelm Dilthey describes Carlyle as "the greatest English writer of our century" (1) It is not surprising that the transitional figure between nineteenth-century romantic hermeneutics and twentieth-century philosophical hermeneutics should esteem Carlyle so highly, since he would have found in Carlyle's work a preoccupation with the same hermeneutical issues that absorbed his own thought. Understanding and interpretation are central concerns in all of Carlyle's texts; indeed, in certain respects he stands as the principal representative of romantic hermeneutics in nineteenth-century Britain.
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