Tom McCarthy
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
Tom McCarthy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's amazing stuff.
It's virtually incomprehensible.
It's absolutely brilliant.
I mean, Kojev, who switched on that whole French generation of Lacons and Lérisses to Hegel.
In a series of lectures he gave in Paris from the 30s onwards, his big kind of way of selling it or reframing it, he said, look, think of the phenomenology as a buildings romance.
It's actually a novel.
It's like Great Expectations or something.
And it tells the adventures, you know, the trials, the setbacks, the digressions of a character called Spirit, Geist, which is human consciousness advancing, you know, unfolding through history into modernity.
Now, this is a perfect description of Middlemarch, right?
Not just Dorothea, but the whole of Middlemarch society.
And I think this is how we should understand, coming back to your first question, the title.
You know, it's in medias res.
It is in mid-March.
It is in the middle of its unfolding.
This is, we're getting a picture of a very important process in its mid-March.
you know, happening.
The word reform, as you pointed out, is everywhere.
It's not just the Reform Act of 1832, which expanded the male franchise, but, you know, you've got the emergence of the reform of medicine is going on, the reform of transport, what Eliot calls the infant struggle of the railway system.
Another web, incidentally.
You've got the reform of land management.
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