Studying history in the 90s I found my professors, whilst generally able, reluctant to engage with this central topic. (on first having access to a university library, I had found Neitzsche's 'Untimely Meditations' and become fascinated with 'On the use and abuse of history', which I devoured with not a little indigestion). It is a great strength of this channel that you steer so adroitly between the perils of wayward romanticism and intricate irrelevance, illumined by a light that heartens but does not bedazzle.
Any thought to making a transcript of this available as a .pdf? I run a reading group that meets weekly to go over academic articles related to early modern Japanese history, and the focus of our study, the historian and poet 頼 山陽 San'yo Rai (1780-1832), to whom a museum is dedicated here in Hiroshima, seems to bear some comparison with Carlyle as an analog. Your essay here helps to bring out those parallels. It may be helpful to read it together in our group, for which purposes I would make a .ppt. See chapter 2 of 齋藤 希史 Saito Marishi's Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature, for a precis on San'yo. Or, Robert Tuck's essay in the current issue of the Monumenta Nipponica.
15:40 the question, of course, is whether these differences are in fact essential or a result of cultural inheritance. I see quite little evidence of an essential, unchangeable character to a specific group of people as distinct from another.
The question is, do you archaize the past, or do you modernize it? Do you attempt to enter the consciousness of the long dead (whom Schopenhaur believed abided still in eternity) or do you want to make them relevant to a chaotic, and ever changing present? Carlyle believed, and believed in, the former.
Huh, so Herder was a precursor to Spengler; that's interesting. Apostolic, would you say Carlyle's style of "literary history" resembles the style of Lucan, who wrote in the time of the Emperor Nero, in his incomplete epic Pharsalia/Civil War where he depicts and dramatizes the civil war of the Late Republic between Caesar and Pompey? He casts Caesar as solely an opportunist in contrast to Suetonius' more neutral account of him in the Lives of the Caesars; and with Pompey, he treats him as a martyric figure when he was anything but that. Also, please tell me how well read you are? I always become so ineluctably curious of that when I listen to incredibly eloquent people.
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Apostolic always brings the majesty. Thank you so much as ever AM.
Can't wait for the discussion on Leopold von Ranke and Thomas Carlyle.
Love me AM, love me ‘istory, love me pasta, simple as
Pasta? Not mashed tatties 🥔 ?!
Wasn’t it Thomas who said “No one has any rights to anything, not even to life itself which, much to our chagrin, we will all discover one day”.
Studying history in the 90s I found my professors, whilst generally able, reluctant to engage with this central topic. (on first having access to a university library, I had found Neitzsche's 'Untimely Meditations' and become fascinated with 'On the use and abuse of history', which I devoured with not a little indigestion). It is a great strength of this channel that you steer so adroitly between the perils of wayward romanticism and intricate irrelevance, illumined by a light that heartens but does not bedazzle.
Sublime. So many quotable moments in this.
Majestic.
AM Gives me modern Carlyle vibes
Give me 20 years and a change of nationality.
no, he doesn't have the scotch vibe to him
Wonderful essay AM!
The lords work!
very enjoyable. Good work
Any thought to making a transcript of this available as a .pdf? I run a reading group that meets weekly to go over academic articles related to early modern Japanese history, and the focus of our study, the historian and poet 頼 山陽 San'yo Rai (1780-1832), to whom a museum is dedicated here in Hiroshima, seems to bear some comparison with Carlyle as an analog. Your essay here helps to bring out those parallels. It may be helpful to read it together in our group, for which purposes I would make a .ppt.
See chapter 2 of 齋藤 希史 Saito Marishi's Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature, for a precis on San'yo. Or, Robert Tuck's essay in the current issue of the Monumenta Nipponica.
13:55 - Leonard Peikoff, in his DIM Hypothesis, calls that "conceptual shrinkage".
15:40 the question, of course, is whether these differences are in fact essential or a result of cultural inheritance. I see quite little evidence of an essential, unchangeable character to a specific group of people as distinct from another.
Is AM just Survive the Jive's Catholic alter-ego?
The question is, do you archaize the past, or do you modernize it? Do you attempt to enter the consciousness of the long dead (whom Schopenhaur believed abided still in eternity) or do you want to make them relevant to a chaotic, and ever changing present? Carlyle believed, and believed in, the former.
Question: Was Carlyle to Goethe what Emerson was to Tolkien?
What about James Legge?
Huh, so Herder was a precursor to Spengler; that's interesting. Apostolic, would you say Carlyle's style of "literary history" resembles the style of Lucan, who wrote in the time of the Emperor Nero, in his incomplete epic Pharsalia/Civil War where he depicts and dramatizes the civil war of the Late Republic between Caesar and Pompey? He casts Caesar as solely an opportunist in contrast to Suetonius' more neutral account of him in the Lives of the Caesars; and with Pompey, he treats him as a martyric figure when he was anything but that.
Also, please tell me how well read you are? I always become so ineluctably curious of that when I listen to incredibly eloquent people.
Anyway of increasing the volume? It's very low.
Luckily, your computer comes equipped with a changeable volume slider! You can find it in the bottom right of your taskbar on windows machines.
The Salic Law + French Absolutism then ?