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ID102980
NAMEAmity Jordan
GIVEN NAMESAmity
FAMILY NAMEJordan
SIGNATUREJORDAN A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Göttingen
ORCID0009-0008-4837-1843
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS183
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3
  • Caesarism in Nineteenth-Century British Political Thought

    Open Access•Amity Jordan•ARTICLE•Modern Intellectual History•2026

    Previous scholarship on Caesarism has focused overwhelmingly on continental Europe. Insofar as Britain has been mentioned at all, it has been as a mere foil to the latter: ostensibly, the kind of democratic dictatorship known as “Caesarism” was wholly alien to British traditions of limited, representative, and parliamentary government; as such, the British dismissed it out of hand; the concept never gained any purchase within British thought; ind…

  • Thomas Carlyle and kingship

    Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•History of European Ideas•2026•References: 19

    Despite an efflorescence of historical scholarship on the theme of monarchy in nineteenth-century Britain, the views of the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) in this regard have been explored only in fragmentary and incomplete fashion. The present article aims to offer a comprehensive survey of Carlyle's thought regarding monarchy, arguing that on the whole, Carlyle was strongly and consistently opposed to monarchy on the …

  • The Hero as Czar

    Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•History of Political Thought•2025

    Thomas Carlyle’s political thought regarding Russia has been almost entirely ignored. Carlyle’s interest in Russia burst forth suddenly in 1842, being expressed in Past and Present (1843). Following the 1848 Revolutions, there was a resurgence in Russophobia throughout Europe, which Carlyle sought to controvert in Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850). During the Crimean War (1853‐6), Carlyle continued to praise Russia and denigrated the British war effort…

  • An Unpublished Letter from Thomas Carlyle to His American Publisher Abraham Hart

    Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short…•2024

  • No Loss of Support if Attached

    Amity Jordan, Jennifer Vonk•ARTICLE•Anthrozoös•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 65

    Although there is extensive literature on bereavement after the loss of pets, it has almost exclusively focused on traditional pets, such as cats and dogs, to the exclusion of many other species that are also popular pets. We targeted caregivers of less-traditional pets, such as reptiles, birds, fish, and exotics, to assess their experiences when grieving their loss. Specifically, we examined the manner in which they reported the loss and the deg…

  • An Unpublished Letter from Thomas Carlyle to his Editor in New England, Charles Stearns Wheeler

    Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•The New England Quarterly•2023

    Considerable scholarly attention has been lavished on the relationship between the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and the Transcendentalist luminary Ralph Waldo Emerson, particularly regarding Emerson's role in publishing Carlyle's works in America. However, a newly discovered letter underlines the fact that Emerson did not act alone, having received crucial support in editing Carlyle's works from Charles Stearns Wheele…

  • Two new letters from Thomas Carlyle’s Irish journey in 1849

    Amity Jordan•ARTICLE•Nineteenth Century Contexts•2023•References: 5

    Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 For a general account of Carlyle’s relationship with Young Ireland, see Quinn Citation2015, 39–40.2 The same point was made in passing by Charles Richard Sanders (Citation1961, 39).3 This argument is explicitly directed against that of Morrow (Huggins Citation2012, 331–332, 344–345).4 Interpretations of Chartism are polarised along the same lines as those o…

  • Thomas Carlyle, François Guizot and the Brothers Ruffini

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Journal of European Studies•2023•References: 2

    This article presents a letter from the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) to François Guizot (1787–1874), the de facto premier of France, recently discovered in the Archives Nationales in Paris. In the letter, Carlyle requests Guizot’s help in procuring visas for two of his friends, the exiled Italian revolutionaries Giovanni and Agostino Ruffini, who were hoping to visit their mother in France. The letter serves as an ent…

  • The dismal science down under

    Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•European Journal of the History…•2021

    Thomas Carlyle is commonly remembered as the arch-nemesis of economics. However, Carlyle’s ideas in fact had a considerable influence among economists in Australia and New Zealand. Indeed, an array of Australasian economists cited Carlyle in criticising self-interest, laissez-faire, and materialism, in suggesting that economic science ought to accord greater importance to ethical factors, and in urging the “Captains of Industry” and the State to …

  • Thomas Carlyle, Scotland's Migrant Philosophers, and Canadian Idealism, c. 1870–1914

    Open Access•Amity Jordan•ARTICLE•Journal of Scottish Philosophy•2021•References: 5

    That the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) exercised a formative influence over late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century ‘British Idealism’ has long been recognized by historians. Through works such as Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Heroes and Hero-Worship (1841), Past and Present (1843), and Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Carlyle transmitted his ideas regarding the immanence of the divine in nature and man, the infinite ch…

  • Thomas Carlyle and the Australasian Labour Movement

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Labour History•2021•Cited by: 1

    The influence of the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) on the British labour movement is well known. Drawing largely on the Australasian labour press, this article explores the influence of Carlyle on the intellectual culture of the Australasian labour movement, demonstrating that Australasian labour activists (including many Scots) derived considerable inspiration from Carlyle, with regard to idealist ethics and the nobili…

  • The Reception of Thomas Carlyle in Land Reform Movements in Australia and New Zealand, c. 1860–1914

    Amity Jordan•ARTICLE•Global Intellectual History•2020•References: 4

    This article examines the ways in which the writings of the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) were appropriated by land reformers in Australia and New Zealand. Carlyle argued that the land had been created by God for the benefit of the whole people, and that its possessors thus had a duty to put it to the best possible use. In this sense, work was the sole legitimate title to land. On these grounds, Carlyle was highly crit…

  • Thomas Carlyle, Scotland’s Migrant Philosophers, and Australasian Idealism

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Journal of Victorian Culture•2020•Cited by: 1

    That the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) exercised a formative influence over late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century ‘British Idealism’ has long been recognized by historians. Through works such as Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Heroes and Hero-Worship (1841), Past and Present (1843), and Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Carlyle transmitted his ideas regarding the immanence of the divine in nature and man, the infinite cha…

  • The Influence of Thomas Carlyle among Economists in Britain, c. 1880–1920

    Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Historical Reflections/Réflexions…•2019

    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) is commonly remembered as the archnemesis of economics, which he notoriously dubbed “the dismal science.” This article, however, suggests that Carlyle’s ideas in fact had a considerable influence among economists during the decades following his death. Indeed, an array of economists cited Carlyle in criticizing self-interest, laissez-faire, and materialism, in suggesting that economic science ought to accord greater imp…

  • The Contribution of Thomas Carlyle to British Idealism, c . 1880–1930

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Scottish historical review/ The…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    That the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) exercised a formative influence over the ‘British Idealism’ of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been noted by historians. However, this has been done so in passing, on the basis of a small fraction of the relevant source material. Through a close, comprehensive and sustained analysis of the entire corpus of relevant sources, the current article demonstrate…

  • A drudge's bargain

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Hugh Jordan•ARTICLE•Historical Research•2019

    This article analyses Carlyle's polemic against Christian Epicureanism, particularly as expressed by William Paley. This consisted of first a utilitarian morality, second an emphasis on the pleasures of heaven and the pains of hell, and finally a commercial theodicy of self-love, whereby God was held to work through market competition. In opposition, Carlyle advocated a disinterested virtue reminiscent of Stoicism, rejecting any system of divine …

  • Distinguishing war-related PTSD resulting from perpetration- and betrayal-based morally injurious events

    Amity Jordan, Alexander H Jordan et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Trauma Theory…•2017

    The associations of perpetration and betrayal with PTSD, controlling for danger-based combat events, highlight the limitations of conceptualizations and treatments of PTSD based on fear or helplessness as sole etiologic factors. (PsycINFO Database Record

  • Karl Marx

    Amity Jordan•ARTICLE•Global Intellectual History•2017•References: 4

    Last year finally saw the publication of Gareth Stedman Jones’ eagerly awaited Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (Allen Lane, 2016). In many ways the culmination of a lifetime of study, research, a

  • A Latter-Day Mystery

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Hugh Jordan•ARTICLE•Victorian Literature and Culture•2017•References: 4

    The names Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) and Eugène Sue (1804–1857) rarely figure in the same sentence. Carlyle is commonly remembered as a dour Scots Calvinist and eminent Victorian; Sue, in contrast, as a sensational French novelist, and sybarite-turned-champagne-socialist. Nevertheless, the following article will contend that Carlyle was in fact familiar with the works of Sue, to such an extent that he adapted passages from the latter's Mystères d…

  • David Hume Is Pontiff of the World

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Journal of British Studies•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) is well known as one of the earliest and most vociferous critics of Benthamite utilitarianism. However, Carlyle understood Benthamism as the culmination of a much longer eighteenth-century tradition of Epicurean thought. Having been an enthusiastic reader of David Hume during his youth, Carlyle later turned against him, waging an increasingly violent polemic against all forms of Epicureanism. In these later works, Carly…

  • Thomas Carlyle and Political Economy

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2017•Cited by: 1

    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) is notorious for his description of economics as ‘the dismal science’. In the existing literature, Carlyle is portrayed as an ignorant and philistine critic, who rejected the science from the outside, on purely ‘moral’ grounds. In contrast, the current article offers a close, comprehensive, and contextualised reading of Carlyle’s oeuvre, continually following up his sources, interlocutors, and reception. In short, it ar…

  • Thomas Carlyle on Epicureanism in the French and German Enlightenments

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•The Historical Journal•2017•Cited by: 3•References: 47

    The young Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) had perused many of the Epicurean writings of the French Enlightenment. According to Carlyle, such ‘Epicureanism’ consisted primarily in an emphasis upon pleasure and pain as the springs of human action, and a positing of self-interest as the foundation of sociability. However, Carlyle soon came to reject such notions, seeking salvation in the writings of Kant and Schiller, who stressed the possibility of disi…

  • Psychometric analysis of the PTSD Checklist-5 (PCL-5) among treatment-seeking military service members.

    Open Access•Jennifer Wortmann, Amity Jordan et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Assessment•2016

    The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (PCL-5; Weathers et al., 2013) was recently revised to reflect the changed diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). We investigated the psychometric properties of PCL-5 scores in a large cohort (N = 912) of military service members seeking PTSD treatment …

  • Be Not a Copy if Thou Canst Be an Original’

    Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•History of European Ideas•2015

    Born to a noble family in the Italian Trentino, Prati studied philosophy in Austria and Germany. Returning to Italy, he joined the carbonari, a network of revolutionary secret societies. Forced into exile in Switzerland, he worked as an educator alongside Pestalozzi. Following his expulsion from Switzerland, Prati sought refuge in Britain, becoming acquainted with Coleridge, the Benthamite utilitarians, and the Owenites. Following the July Revolu…

  • Solidarity means inclusion

    Irvin D S Winsboro, Amity Jordan et al.•ARTICLE•Labor History•2014•References: 13

    This study analyzes the transnational migration of interracial cigar workers from Cuba to Tampa, Florida, from the 1880s to the early 1900s, focusing on the cigar workers' attempt to transplant union movement, La Resistencia, from Cuba to the agrarian, nativist, anti-union, Jim Crow American South. By the turn of the century the Cuban émigré workforce accounted for 20% of Tampa's population. The 6000 Cuban cigar makers, about 15% of them Afro-Cub…

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  • Teachers' Mathematical Knowledge, Cognitive Activation in the Classroom, and Student Progress

    Open Access•Jürgen Baumert, M Kunter et al.•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2009•Cited by: 170•References: 10

    In both the United States and Europe, concerns have been raised about whether preservice and in-service training succeeds in equipping teachers with the professional knowledge they need to deliver consistently high-quality instruction. This article investigates the significance of teachers' content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge for high-quality instruction and student progress in secondary-level mathematics. It reports findings from…

  • No Loss of Support if Attached

    Amity Jordan, Jennifer Vonk•ARTICLE•Anthrozoös•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 65

    Although there is extensive literature on bereavement after the loss of pets, it has almost exclusively focused on traditional pets, such as cats and dogs, to the exclusion of many other species that are also popular pets. We targeted caregivers of less-traditional pets, such as reptiles, birds, fish, and exotics, to assess their experiences when grieving their loss. Specifically, we examined the manner in which they reported the loss and the deg…

  • Thomas Carlyle on Epicureanism in the French and German Enlightenments

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•The Historical Journal•2017•Cited by: 3•References: 47

    The young Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) had perused many of the Epicurean writings of the French Enlightenment. According to Carlyle, such ‘Epicureanism’ consisted primarily in an emphasis upon pleasure and pain as the springs of human action, and a positing of self-interest as the foundation of sociability. However, Carlyle soon came to reject such notions, seeking salvation in the writings of Kant and Schiller, who stressed the possibility of disi…

  • David Hume Is Pontiff of the World

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Journal of British Studies•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) is well known as one of the earliest and most vociferous critics of Benthamite utilitarianism. However, Carlyle understood Benthamism as the culmination of a much longer eighteenth-century tradition of Epicurean thought. Having been an enthusiastic reader of David Hume during his youth, Carlyle later turned against him, waging an increasingly violent polemic against all forms of Epicureanism. In these later works, Carly…

  • Thomas Carlyle and the Australasian Labour Movement

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Labour History•2021•Cited by: 1

    The influence of the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) on the British labour movement is well known. Drawing largely on the Australasian labour press, this article explores the influence of Carlyle on the intellectual culture of the Australasian labour movement, demonstrating that Australasian labour activists (including many Scots) derived considerable inspiration from Carlyle, with regard to idealist ethics and the nobili…

  • Thomas Carlyle, Scotland’s Migrant Philosophers, and Australasian Idealism

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Journal of Victorian Culture•2020•Cited by: 1

    That the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) exercised a formative influence over late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century ‘British Idealism’ has long been recognized by historians. Through works such as Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Heroes and Hero-Worship (1841), Past and Present (1843), and Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Carlyle transmitted his ideas regarding the immanence of the divine in nature and man, the infinite cha…

  • The Contribution of Thomas Carlyle to British Idealism, c . 1880–1930

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Scottish historical review/ The…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    That the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) exercised a formative influence over the ‘British Idealism’ of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been noted by historians. However, this has been done so in passing, on the basis of a small fraction of the relevant source material. Through a close, comprehensive and sustained analysis of the entire corpus of relevant sources, the current article demonstrate…

  • Thomas Carlyle and Political Economy

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2017•Cited by: 1

    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) is notorious for his description of economics as ‘the dismal science’. In the existing literature, Carlyle is portrayed as an ignorant and philistine critic, who rejected the science from the outside, on purely ‘moral’ grounds. In contrast, the current article offers a close, comprehensive, and contextualised reading of Carlyle’s oeuvre, continually following up his sources, interlocutors, and reception. In short, it ar…

  • The Social Psychology of Black-White Interracial Interactions

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander H Jordan et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Multicultural…•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 47

    Social psychological research suggests that because of concerns about being perceived in stereotypical ways, people may experience negative affect and diminished attention and cognitive capacity during interracial interactions. The authors discuss this research in relation to therapy and assessment and also offer practical suggestions for ensuring culturally competent professional practice.La investigación en el campo de la psicología social sugi…

  • Disgust as Embodied Moral Judgment

    Open Access•Simone Schnall, Jonathan Haidt et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2008

    How, and for whom, does disgust influence moral judgment? In four experiments participants made moral judgments while experiencing extraneous feelings of disgust. Disgust was induced in Experiment 1 by exposure to a bad smell, in Experiment 2 by working in a disgusting room, in Experiment 3 by recalling a physically disgusting experience, and in Experiment 4 through a video induction. In each case, the results showed that disgust can increase the…

  • Pedagogical content knowledge and content knowledge of secondary mathematics teachers.

    Steven Krau, Stefan Krauss et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Educational Psychology•2008

    Drawing on the work of L. S. Shulman (1986), the authors present a conceptualization of the pedagogical content knowledge and content knowledge of secondary-level mathematics teachers. They describe the theory-based construction of tests to assess these knowledge categories and the implementation of these tests in a sample of German mathematics teachers (N=198). Analyses investigate whether pedagogical content knowledge and content knowledge can …

  • Teachers' Mathematical Knowledge, Cognitive Activation in the Classroom, and Student Progress

    Open Access•Jürgen Baumert, M Kunter et al.•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2009•Cited by: 170•References: 10

    In both the United States and Europe, concerns have been raised about whether preservice and in-service training succeeds in equipping teachers with the professional knowledge they need to deliver consistently high-quality instruction. This article investigates the significance of teachers' content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge for high-quality instruction and student progress in secondary-level mathematics. It reports findings from…

  • The Social Psychology of Black-White Interracial Interactions

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander H Jordan et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Multicultural…•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 47

    Social psychological research suggests that because of concerns about being perceived in stereotypical ways, people may experience negative affect and diminished attention and cognitive capacity during interracial interactions. The authors discuss this research in relation to therapy and assessment and also offer practical suggestions for ensuring culturally competent professional practice.La investigación en el campo de la psicología social sugi…

  • Solidarity means inclusion

    Irvin D S Winsboro, Amity Jordan et al.•ARTICLE•Labor History•2014•References: 13

    This study analyzes the transnational migration of interracial cigar workers from Cuba to Tampa, Florida, from the 1880s to the early 1900s, focusing on the cigar workers' attempt to transplant union movement, La Resistencia, from Cuba to the agrarian, nativist, anti-union, Jim Crow American South. By the turn of the century the Cuban émigré workforce accounted for 20% of Tampa's population. The 6000 Cuban cigar makers, about 15% of them Afro-Cub…

  • Be Not a Copy if Thou Canst Be an Original’

    Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•History of European Ideas•2015

    Born to a noble family in the Italian Trentino, Prati studied philosophy in Austria and Germany. Returning to Italy, he joined the carbonari, a network of revolutionary secret societies. Forced into exile in Switzerland, he worked as an educator alongside Pestalozzi. Following his expulsion from Switzerland, Prati sought refuge in Britain, becoming acquainted with Coleridge, the Benthamite utilitarians, and the Owenites. Following the July Revolu…

  • Psychometric analysis of the PTSD Checklist-5 (PCL-5) among treatment-seeking military service members.

    Open Access•Jennifer Wortmann, Amity Jordan et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Assessment•2016

    The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (PCL-5; Weathers et al., 2013) was recently revised to reflect the changed diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). We investigated the psychometric properties of PCL-5 scores in a large cohort (N = 912) of military service members seeking PTSD treatment …

  • Distinguishing war-related PTSD resulting from perpetration- and betrayal-based morally injurious events

    Amity Jordan, Alexander H Jordan et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Trauma Theory…•2017

    The associations of perpetration and betrayal with PTSD, controlling for danger-based combat events, highlight the limitations of conceptualizations and treatments of PTSD based on fear or helplessness as sole etiologic factors. (PsycINFO Database Record

  • Karl Marx

    Amity Jordan•ARTICLE•Global Intellectual History•2017•References: 4

    Last year finally saw the publication of Gareth Stedman Jones’ eagerly awaited Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (Allen Lane, 2016). In many ways the culmination of a lifetime of study, research, a

  • A Latter-Day Mystery

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Hugh Jordan•ARTICLE•Victorian Literature and Culture•2017•References: 4

    The names Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) and Eugène Sue (1804–1857) rarely figure in the same sentence. Carlyle is commonly remembered as a dour Scots Calvinist and eminent Victorian; Sue, in contrast, as a sensational French novelist, and sybarite-turned-champagne-socialist. Nevertheless, the following article will contend that Carlyle was in fact familiar with the works of Sue, to such an extent that he adapted passages from the latter's Mystères d…

  • David Hume Is Pontiff of the World

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Journal of British Studies•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) is well known as one of the earliest and most vociferous critics of Benthamite utilitarianism. However, Carlyle understood Benthamism as the culmination of a much longer eighteenth-century tradition of Epicurean thought. Having been an enthusiastic reader of David Hume during his youth, Carlyle later turned against him, waging an increasingly violent polemic against all forms of Epicureanism. In these later works, Carly…

  • Thomas Carlyle and Political Economy

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2017•Cited by: 1

    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) is notorious for his description of economics as ‘the dismal science’. In the existing literature, Carlyle is portrayed as an ignorant and philistine critic, who rejected the science from the outside, on purely ‘moral’ grounds. In contrast, the current article offers a close, comprehensive, and contextualised reading of Carlyle’s oeuvre, continually following up his sources, interlocutors, and reception. In short, it ar…

  • Thomas Carlyle on Epicureanism in the French and German Enlightenments

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•The Historical Journal•2017•Cited by: 3•References: 47

    The young Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) had perused many of the Epicurean writings of the French Enlightenment. According to Carlyle, such ‘Epicureanism’ consisted primarily in an emphasis upon pleasure and pain as the springs of human action, and a positing of self-interest as the foundation of sociability. However, Carlyle soon came to reject such notions, seeking salvation in the writings of Kant and Schiller, who stressed the possibility of disi…

  • The Influence of Thomas Carlyle among Economists in Britain, c. 1880–1920

    Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Historical Reflections/Réflexions…•2019

    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) is commonly remembered as the archnemesis of economics, which he notoriously dubbed “the dismal science.” This article, however, suggests that Carlyle’s ideas in fact had a considerable influence among economists during the decades following his death. Indeed, an array of economists cited Carlyle in criticizing self-interest, laissez-faire, and materialism, in suggesting that economic science ought to accord greater imp…

  • The Contribution of Thomas Carlyle to British Idealism, c . 1880–1930

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Scottish historical review/ The…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    That the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) exercised a formative influence over the ‘British Idealism’ of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been noted by historians. However, this has been done so in passing, on the basis of a small fraction of the relevant source material. Through a close, comprehensive and sustained analysis of the entire corpus of relevant sources, the current article demonstrate…

  • A drudge's bargain

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Hugh Jordan•ARTICLE•Historical Research•2019

    This article analyses Carlyle's polemic against Christian Epicureanism, particularly as expressed by William Paley. This consisted of first a utilitarian morality, second an emphasis on the pleasures of heaven and the pains of hell, and finally a commercial theodicy of self-love, whereby God was held to work through market competition. In opposition, Carlyle advocated a disinterested virtue reminiscent of Stoicism, rejecting any system of divine …

  • The Reception of Thomas Carlyle in Land Reform Movements in Australia and New Zealand, c. 1860–1914

    Amity Jordan•ARTICLE•Global Intellectual History•2020•References: 4

    This article examines the ways in which the writings of the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) were appropriated by land reformers in Australia and New Zealand. Carlyle argued that the land had been created by God for the benefit of the whole people, and that its possessors thus had a duty to put it to the best possible use. In this sense, work was the sole legitimate title to land. On these grounds, Carlyle was highly crit…

  • Thomas Carlyle, Scotland’s Migrant Philosophers, and Australasian Idealism

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Journal of Victorian Culture•2020•Cited by: 1

    That the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) exercised a formative influence over late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century ‘British Idealism’ has long been recognized by historians. Through works such as Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Heroes and Hero-Worship (1841), Past and Present (1843), and Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Carlyle transmitted his ideas regarding the immanence of the divine in nature and man, the infinite cha…

  • The dismal science down under

    Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•European Journal of the History…•2021

    Thomas Carlyle is commonly remembered as the arch-nemesis of economics. However, Carlyle’s ideas in fact had a considerable influence among economists in Australia and New Zealand. Indeed, an array of Australasian economists cited Carlyle in criticising self-interest, laissez-faire, and materialism, in suggesting that economic science ought to accord greater importance to ethical factors, and in urging the “Captains of Industry” and the State to …

  • Thomas Carlyle, Scotland's Migrant Philosophers, and Canadian Idealism, c. 1870–1914

    Open Access•Amity Jordan•ARTICLE•Journal of Scottish Philosophy•2021•References: 5

    That the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) exercised a formative influence over late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century ‘British Idealism’ has long been recognized by historians. Through works such as Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Heroes and Hero-Worship (1841), Past and Present (1843), and Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Carlyle transmitted his ideas regarding the immanence of the divine in nature and man, the infinite ch…

  • Thomas Carlyle and the Australasian Labour Movement

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Labour History•2021•Cited by: 1

    The influence of the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) on the British labour movement is well known. Drawing largely on the Australasian labour press, this article explores the influence of Carlyle on the intellectual culture of the Australasian labour movement, demonstrating that Australasian labour activists (including many Scots) derived considerable inspiration from Carlyle, with regard to idealist ethics and the nobili…

  • An Unpublished Letter from Thomas Carlyle to his Editor in New England, Charles Stearns Wheeler

    Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•The New England Quarterly•2023

    Considerable scholarly attention has been lavished on the relationship between the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and the Transcendentalist luminary Ralph Waldo Emerson, particularly regarding Emerson's role in publishing Carlyle's works in America. However, a newly discovered letter underlines the fact that Emerson did not act alone, having received crucial support in editing Carlyle's works from Charles Stearns Wheele…

  • Two new letters from Thomas Carlyle’s Irish journey in 1849

    Amity Jordan•ARTICLE•Nineteenth Century Contexts•2023•References: 5

    Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 For a general account of Carlyle’s relationship with Young Ireland, see Quinn Citation2015, 39–40.2 The same point was made in passing by Charles Richard Sanders (Citation1961, 39).3 This argument is explicitly directed against that of Morrow (Huggins Citation2012, 331–332, 344–345).4 Interpretations of Chartism are polarised along the same lines as those o…

  • Thomas Carlyle, François Guizot and the Brothers Ruffini

    Open Access•Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•Journal of European Studies•2023•References: 2

    This article presents a letter from the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) to François Guizot (1787–1874), the de facto premier of France, recently discovered in the Archives Nationales in Paris. In the letter, Carlyle requests Guizot’s help in procuring visas for two of his friends, the exiled Italian revolutionaries Giovanni and Agostino Ruffini, who were hoping to visit their mother in France. The letter serves as an ent…

  • An Unpublished Letter from Thomas Carlyle to His American Publisher Abraham Hart

    Amity Jordan, Alexander Jordan•ARTICLE•ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short…•2024

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