Moral Imagination

From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-07-30
Mått:151 x 228 x 24 mm
Vikt:494 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:330
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781442218291

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Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

The Scrapbook is a big fan of the distinguished historian Gertrude Himmelfarb,(Really, who isn't?) So we were very pleased to learn that Rowman & Littlefield has just published a new, expanded edition of her superb collection of essays The Moral Imagination. The subtitle of the 2006 edition was “From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling.” The new subtitle is “From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling,” reflecting the fact that the new volume features three additional essays, on Smith, Lord Acton, and Alfred Marshall. So now you get 15 dazzling studies of men ranging from John Stuart Mill to Michael Buchan, and Walter Bagehot to Winston Churchill. And, The Scrapbook hastens to add only partly for fear of being accused of complicity in the famed war on women, not just men-the essays on Jane Austen and George Eliot are two of our favorites. Buy the book and send copies to your friends-you’ll thank us for the recommendation, and they’ll thank you (and Himmelfarb) for the reading enjoyment, the historical education, and the intellectual stimulation.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionChapter 1: Adam Smith: Political Economist cum Moral PhilosopherChapter 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 MillChapter 8: Walter Bagehot: “A Divided Nature” Chapter 9: Lord Acton: The Historian as MoralistChapter 10: Alfred Marshall: “The Economics of ChivalryChapter 11: John Buchan: An Untimely AppreciationChapter 12: The Knoxes: A God-Haunted Family Chapter 13: Michael Oakeshott: The Conservative DispositionChapter 14: Winston Churchill: “Quite Simply, a Great Man” Chapter 15: Lionel Trilling: The Moral ImaginationNotesIndex

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