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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