Where once there was robust, enduring debate about the so-called Great Man Theory of History – from Carlyle to Spencer to William James, with bows along the way to Hegel, Nietzsche, and Jacob Burckhardt – today there is nary a word to such effect. More than anything, I suspect, this is due to the fact that there no longer are any readily identifiable great men (or More
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