Alexander Jordan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Jordan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Jordan |
| SIGNATURE | JORDAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Metropolitan University Prague |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0763-0307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Thomas Carlyle and kingship
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
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An Unpublished Letter from Thomas Carlyle to His American Publisher Abraham Hart
Cost-effectiveness evaluation of routine histoplasmosis screening among people living with advanced HIV disease in Latin America and the Caribbean
Histoplasma antigen can be detected in people with advanced HIV disease (AHD), allowing for early and accurate diagnosis of histoplasmosis. The aim of this analysis was to assess the cost-effectiveness of routine histoplasmosis screening using antigen detection, among people with AHD. We developed a decision analytic model to evaluate Histoplasma antigen screening among people with AHD. The model estimated the costs, effectiveness, and cost-effec…
An Unpublished Letter from Thomas Carlyle to his Editor in New England, Charles Stearns Wheeler
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…
Thomas Carlyle, François Guizot and the Brothers Ruffini
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…
Identification of cannabinoids in post-mortem blood samples from the province of New Brunswick before and after recreational cannabis legalization
The dismal science down under
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 and the Australasian Labour Movement
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
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…
Psychological Entitlement Predicts Failure to Follow Instructions
Six studies examined the relationship between psychological entitlement and not following instructions. In Study 1, more entitled individuals were more likely to ignore instructions about how to format their responses. Studies 2–4 investigated possible boundaries on the association between entitlement and ignoring instructions; however, entitled people were more likely to ignore instructions even when following instructions was low cost for the s…
The Influence of Thomas Carlyle among Economists in Britain, c. 1880–1920
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
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…
Cultural dissimilarity
David Hume Is Pontiff of the World
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
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
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…
Narcissism Predicts Support for Hierarchy (At Least When Narcissists Think They Can Rise to the Top)
Five studies tested the relationship between narcissism and support for hierarchy. Narcissism was associated with endorsing group-based hierarchy, income inequality, and hierarchy in business (Studies 1a–1b) and with liking organizations with a hierarchical structure (Studies 2a–2b). Analyses suggested that more narcissistic participants’ preference for a hierarchy may have been due at least partly to their current high standing in that hierarchy…
Be Not a Copy if Thou Canst Be an Original’
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
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…
Victim entitlement to behave selfishly
Three experiments demonstrated that feeling wronged leads to a sense of entitlement and to selfish behavior. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall a time when their lives were unfair were more likely to refuse to help the experimenter with a supplementary task than were participants who recalled a time when they were bored. In Experiment 2, the same manipulation increased intentions to engage in a number of selfish behaviors, and thi…
Teachers' Mathematical Knowledge, Cognitive Activation in the Classroom, and Student Progress
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…
Pedagogical content knowledge and content knowledge of secondary mathematics teachers.
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
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…
Victim entitlement to behave selfishly
Three experiments demonstrated that feeling wronged leads to a sense of entitlement and to selfish behavior. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall a time when their lives were unfair were more likely to refuse to help the experimenter with a supplementary task than were participants who recalled a time when they were bored. In Experiment 2, the same manipulation increased intentions to engage in a number of selfish behaviors, and thi…
Thomas Carlyle on Epicureanism in the French and German Enlightenments
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…
Cultural dissimilarity
David Hume Is Pontiff of the World
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
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
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
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
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…
Pedagogical content knowledge and content knowledge of secondary mathematics teachers.
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
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…
Victim entitlement to behave selfishly
Three experiments demonstrated that feeling wronged leads to a sense of entitlement and to selfish behavior. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall a time when their lives were unfair were more likely to refuse to help the experimenter with a supplementary task than were participants who recalled a time when they were bored. In Experiment 2, the same manipulation increased intentions to engage in a number of selfish behaviors, and thi…
Solidarity means inclusion
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’
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…
Narcissism Predicts Support for Hierarchy (At Least When Narcissists Think They Can Rise to the Top)
Five studies tested the relationship between narcissism and support for hierarchy. Narcissism was associated with endorsing group-based hierarchy, income inequality, and hierarchy in business (Studies 1a–1b) and with liking organizations with a hierarchical structure (Studies 2a–2b). Analyses suggested that more narcissistic participants’ preference for a hierarchy may have been due at least partly to their current high standing in that hierarchy…
David Hume Is Pontiff of the World
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
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
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…
Cultural dissimilarity
Psychological Entitlement Predicts Failure to Follow Instructions
Six studies examined the relationship between psychological entitlement and not following instructions. In Study 1, more entitled individuals were more likely to ignore instructions about how to format their responses. Studies 2–4 investigated possible boundaries on the association between entitlement and ignoring instructions; however, entitled people were more likely to ignore instructions even when following instructions was low cost for the s…
The Influence of Thomas Carlyle among Economists in Britain, c. 1880–1920
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
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, Scotland’s Migrant Philosophers, and Australasian Idealism
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
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 and the Australasian Labour Movement
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…
Identification of cannabinoids in post-mortem blood samples from the province of New Brunswick before and after recreational cannabis legalization
Cost-effectiveness evaluation of routine histoplasmosis screening among people living with advanced HIV disease in Latin America and the Caribbean
Histoplasma antigen can be detected in people with advanced HIV disease (AHD), allowing for early and accurate diagnosis of histoplasmosis. The aim of this analysis was to assess the cost-effectiveness of routine histoplasmosis screening using antigen detection, among people with AHD. We developed a decision analytic model to evaluate Histoplasma antigen screening among people with AHD. The model estimated the costs, effectiveness, and cost-effec…
An Unpublished Letter from Thomas Carlyle to his Editor in New England, Charles Stearns Wheeler
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…
Thomas Carlyle, François Guizot and the Brothers Ruffini
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
The Hero as Czar
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…
Thomas Carlyle and kingship
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 …
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