EPISODE 77 - Thomas Carlyle, Forgotten Conservative (Part 1)

Episode 77 March 22, 2026 01:07:11
EPISODE 77 - Thomas Carlyle, Forgotten Conservative (Part 1)
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EPISODE 77 - Thomas Carlyle, Forgotten Conservative (Part 1)

Mar 22 2026 | 01:07:11

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Show Notes

Life and works of the Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881).

Ethan Alexander-Davey teaches political science at Campbell University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ciceronian Society. He is co-editor, with Richard Avramenko, of Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times and Aristocratic Voices: Forgotten Arguments about Virtue, Authority and Inequality, both published by Lexington/Bloomsbury.

Scott Irving read modern history at Oxford University. He is author of "Vico and the Aristocratic Origin of Political Order” published in the edited volume Aristocratic Voices.

Texts discussed in this podcast:

The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle https://www.ucpress.edu/series/the-norman-and-charlotte-strouse-edition-of-the-writings-of-thomas-carlyle

Essays on Politics and Society https://www.ucpress.edu/books/essays-on-politics-and-society/hardcover

Other works by Carlyle 

Carlyle’s Latter-Day Pamphlets, which awaits a modern critical edition: https://dn721807.ca.archive.org/0/items/latterdaypamphle00carlrich/latterdaypamphle00carlrich.pdf

Other books referenced

Charles Frederick Harrold, Carlyle and German Thought https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.01171/page/285/mode/2up

Cicero, De re publica, De legibus https://archive.org/details/cicero-in-28-volumes.-vol.-16-loeb-213/mode/2up

Gertrude Himmelfarb, The De-moralization of Society https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/80256/the-de-moralization-of-society-by-gertrude-himmelfarb/

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