{"product_id":"sartor-resartus-9781841952789","title":"Sartor Resartus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary work is at one and the same time an account of a  personal spiritual crisis and a hilarious spoof on academic learning,  early Victorian values and materialism. In \u003ci\u003eSartor Resartus\u003c\/i\u003e ('the  tailor retailored') a fictitious editor retells the theories of an  equally fictitious German professor who has come to the conclusion that  human institutions and morals are only clothes to shield us from  nothingness, clothes that can be changed as the whims of the age or  fashion dictate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis radically deconstructive vision reveals  the very highest symbols of belief for what they are - merely symbols.  How to believe in anything after such an insight is a question even more  acute today than it was in Carlyle's time, when he first asked it in  this masterpiece of invention, parody and profound laughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis  Canongate Classics edition incorporates illustrations by Edmund  Sullivan, reproduced as they appeared in the 1898 edition of the text.  Also included is the notable Emerson preface to the original American  edition and an incisive, specially commissioned introduction from  Alasdair Gray.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Carlyle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48281328320763,"sku":"9781841952789","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781841952789_c25164f2-1eea-40a7-9cb4-b0753d98058b.jpg?v=1772487443","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/sartor-resartus-9781841952789","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}