Ross Carroll
Biographic Data
| ID | 6114251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ross Carroll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ross |
| FAMILY NAME | Carroll |
| SIGNATURE | CARROLL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8088-0738 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Perils of Improvement
Edmund Burke’s thoughts on plantation slavery have long been the subject of scholarly attention. Too often, however, discerning Burke’s long-term intention in relation to slavery has taken precedence over examining the specific administrative strategies he proposed for managing enslaved populations in the interim. Seeking to remedy this gap, the article reads Burke’s Sketch for a Negro Code as an exercise in colonial ameliorationism; that is, a r…
Introduction to a Review Symposium on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable
One of the more exhausting features of contemporary political debate is its intensely denunciatory tone. Progressives denounce their opponents as stubborn reactionaries or (worse) tepid liberals. I
Why the socialist Mill will not alarm his liberal readers
McCabe's interpretation of Mill as a socialist is convincing but does not render his writings any less available to liberals. The term ‘socialism' was a slippery one in nineteenth-century Britain. For the likes of Arnold Toynbee, even self-proclaimed Tories could become socialists if they embraced the right policies. The existence of such ‘Tory socialists’ serves as a reminder of the hybridity of political identity at the time Mill was writing (h…
How contempt became a passion
Philosophers and psychologists have come to recognize contempt as a crucial concept for understanding moral and social life. Yet its conceptual history remains understudied. I argue that contempt underwent an important conceptual shift at the end of the 1640s with the publication of René Descartes’ Passions de l’âme. Prior to Descartes, early modern philosophers excluded contempt from their taxonomies of the passions, treating it instead as a for…
The Hidden Labors of Mary Mottley, Madame de Tocqueville
In Democracy in America , Tocqueville described the ideal wife of a democratic citizen as a capable domestic helpmeet who enables the citizen‐husband to endure the daily trials of political activity. Tocqueville's biographers have presented Tocqueville's own wife Mary Mottley as having approximated this ideal. Mottley's importance, it is claimed, lay in providing the domestic calm and psychological support that Tocqueville needed to think, act, a…
Ridicule, Censorship, and the Regulation of Public Speech
The Third Earl of Shaftesbury has been celebrated for his commitment to free public discourse regulated only by standards of politeness, a commitment exemplified by his defence of the freedom to ridicule. This article complicates this picture by tracing Shaftesbury's response to the early eighteenth-century crisis of public speech precipitated by the demise of pre-publication censorship and growing uncertainty about intellectual property in the p…
Wollstonecraft and the political value of contempt
In her Vindication of the Rights of Men, Mary Wollstonecraft accused Edmund Burke of having contempt for his political opponents. Yet she herself expressed contempt for Burke and did so unapologetically. Readers have long regarded Wollstonecraft’s decision to match Burke’s contempt with one of her own as either a tactical blunder or evidence that she sought merely to ridicule Burke rather than argue with him. I offer an interpretation and defence…
Radical Moderates
Book Review| September 01 2015 Radical Moderates Craiutu, Aurelian. A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748–1830. (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 2012). Pp xix+ 338. $49.50 Ross Carroll Ross Carroll Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 87–91. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3143803 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permiss…
Talking As
AbbVie and the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Bath have developed an online tool, Talking AS (www.talkingas.com), to help patients and clinicians monitor symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a long term condition that affects around 200,000 people in the UK.Talking AS is an online tool designed to make assessing AS quicker and easier.For people with AS, regularly recording symptoms and how they affect everyday life can help…
The Hidden Labors of Mary Mottley, Madame de Tocqueville
In Democracy in America , Tocqueville described the ideal wife of a democratic citizen as a capable domestic helpmeet who enables the citizen‐husband to endure the daily trials of political activity. Tocqueville's biographers have presented Tocqueville's own wife Mary Mottley as having approximated this ideal. Mottley's importance, it is claimed, lay in providing the domestic calm and psychological support that Tocqueville needed to think, act, a…
How contempt became a passion
Philosophers and psychologists have come to recognize contempt as a crucial concept for understanding moral and social life. Yet its conceptual history remains understudied. I argue that contempt underwent an important conceptual shift at the end of the 1640s with the publication of René Descartes’ Passions de l’âme. Prior to Descartes, early modern philosophers excluded contempt from their taxonomies of the passions, treating it instead as a for…
Talking As
AbbVie and the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Bath have developed an online tool, Talking AS (www.talkingas.com), to help patients and clinicians monitor symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a long term condition that affects around 200,000 people in the UK.Talking AS is an online tool designed to make assessing AS quicker and easier.For people with AS, regularly recording symptoms and how they affect everyday life can help…
Wollstonecraft and the political value of contempt
In her Vindication of the Rights of Men, Mary Wollstonecraft accused Edmund Burke of having contempt for his political opponents. Yet she herself expressed contempt for Burke and did so unapologetically. Readers have long regarded Wollstonecraft’s decision to match Burke’s contempt with one of her own as either a tactical blunder or evidence that she sought merely to ridicule Burke rather than argue with him. I offer an interpretation and defence…
Radical Moderates
Book Review| September 01 2015 Radical Moderates Craiutu, Aurelian. A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748–1830. (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 2012). Pp xix+ 338. $49.50 Ross Carroll Ross Carroll Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 87–91. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3143803 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permiss…
Ridicule, Censorship, and the Regulation of Public Speech
The Third Earl of Shaftesbury has been celebrated for his commitment to free public discourse regulated only by standards of politeness, a commitment exemplified by his defence of the freedom to ridicule. This article complicates this picture by tracing Shaftesbury's response to the early eighteenth-century crisis of public speech precipitated by the demise of pre-publication censorship and growing uncertainty about intellectual property in the p…
The Hidden Labors of Mary Mottley, Madame de Tocqueville
In Democracy in America , Tocqueville described the ideal wife of a democratic citizen as a capable domestic helpmeet who enables the citizen‐husband to endure the daily trials of political activity. Tocqueville's biographers have presented Tocqueville's own wife Mary Mottley as having approximated this ideal. Mottley's importance, it is claimed, lay in providing the domestic calm and psychological support that Tocqueville needed to think, act, a…
How contempt became a passion
Philosophers and psychologists have come to recognize contempt as a crucial concept for understanding moral and social life. Yet its conceptual history remains understudied. I argue that contempt underwent an important conceptual shift at the end of the 1640s with the publication of René Descartes’ Passions de l’âme. Prior to Descartes, early modern philosophers excluded contempt from their taxonomies of the passions, treating it instead as a for…
Why the socialist Mill will not alarm his liberal readers
McCabe's interpretation of Mill as a socialist is convincing but does not render his writings any less available to liberals. The term ‘socialism' was a slippery one in nineteenth-century Britain. For the likes of Arnold Toynbee, even self-proclaimed Tories could become socialists if they embraced the right policies. The existence of such ‘Tory socialists’ serves as a reminder of the hybridity of political identity at the time Mill was writing (h…
Introduction to a Review Symposium on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable
One of the more exhausting features of contemporary political debate is its intensely denunciatory tone. Progressives denounce their opponents as stubborn reactionaries or (worse) tepid liberals. I
The Perils of Improvement
Edmund Burke’s thoughts on plantation slavery have long been the subject of scholarly attention. Too often, however, discerning Burke’s long-term intention in relation to slavery has taken precedence over examining the specific administrative strategies he proposed for managing enslaved populations in the interim. Seeking to remedy this gap, the article reads Burke’s Sketch for a Negro Code as an exercise in colonial ameliorationism; that is, a r…
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