Gertrude Himmelfarb

The Moral Imagination (eBook, PDF)

From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. In their distinctive ways, she argues, they exemplify what Burke two centuries ago and Trilling most recently have called the "moral imagination." Himmelfarb describes how each of these thinkers, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, and writing in different genres, shared a moral passion that permeated their work. It is this passion that makes their reflections-on politics and literature, religion and society, marriage and sex-sometimes unpredictable, often controversial, always exciting, and as illuminating and pertinent today as they were then. The second edition includes a revised introduction and three new essays on Adam Smith, Lord Acton, and Alfred Marshall.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216232773
• Artikelnr.: 75140992

Autorenporträt

Gertrude Himmelfarb was born in New York City and studied at Brooklyn College and the University of Chicago. A distinguished historian, she has received numerous honorary degrees, fellowships, and awards, including the 2004 National Humanities Medal. She is a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians. She has written extensively on Victorian England and more generally on intellectual and cultural history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Adam Smith: Political Economist cum Moral Philosopher
Chapter 2: Edmund Burke: Apologist for Judaism?
Chapter 3: George Eliot: The Wisdom of Dorothea
Chapter 4: Jane Austen: The Education of Emma
Chapter 5: Charles Dickens: "A Low Writer"
Chapter 6: Benjamin Disraeli: The Tory Imagination
Chapter 7: John Stuart Mill: The Other Mill
Chapter 8: Walter Bagehot: "A Divided Nature"
Chapter 9: Lord Acton: The Historian as Moralist
Chapter 10: Alfred Marshall: "The Economics of Chivalry
Chapter 11: John Buchan: An Untimely Appreciation
Chapter 12: The Knoxes: A God-Haunted Family
Chapter 13: Michael Oakeshott: The Conservative Disposition
Chapter 14: Winston Churchill: "Quite Simply, a Great Man"
Chapter 15: Lionel Trilling: The Moral Imagination
Notes
Index