Career
His Cambridge doctoral dissertation on epistemological anarchistic and anti-rationalist themes in Max Stirner, Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky was published as Breakout from the Crystal Palace (1974). lieutenant was supervised by George Steiner. Carroll"s often bleak diagnosis is primarily based on unique readings of canonic theological, philosophical and artistic texts including those by Sophocles, Calvin, Holbein, Donatello, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Poussin, Henry James and John Ford.
The heart of the book"s analysis is highly indebted to Nietzsche"s critique of "Socratic" culture in the The Birth of Tragedy.
Terror: a Meditation on the Meaning of September 11 (2004) is an application of many of the themes in the former work. His most recent work, Greek Pilgrimage, is an unabashed hellenophilic meditation on the nature of ancient Greek aesthetics and culture and what remains of the archaeological sites themselves.
