Record Number: 23640

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'You will never in the world guess what sort of a pastime I have had resourse to in this windbound portion of my voyage. Nothing less than the reading of Kant's Transcendental Philosophy! So it is: I am at the hundred and fiftieth page of the Kritik der reinen verbubft; not only reading but partially understanding, and full of projects for instructing my benighted countrymen on the true merits of this sublime system at some more propitious season.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 19 Sep 1826 and 27 Sep 1826

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Thomas Carlyle

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Dec 1795

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer / Academic

Religion:

Lapsed Calvinist

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Immanuel Kant

Title:

The Critique of Pure Reason

Genre:

Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

First published 1781, revised 1787

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

23640

Source:

Print

Author:

Thomas Carlyle

Editor:

C R Sanders

Title:

The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina

Date of Publication:

1970

Vol:

4

Page:

137

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 4, p. 137, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=23640, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Taken from letter from TC to Jane Baillie Welsh, dated 27th September, written at Scotsbrig. Pages 137-139 in this edition. Date range is an estimate based on the date of this letter and the date of his previous (also to JBW) dated 19th September in which he does not mention this book.