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On Liberty
Av John Stuart Mill, Gertrude Himmelfarb
Häftad, 1982
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130 kr
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'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who …
On Liberty
Av John Stuart Mill, Gertrude Himmelfarb
E-bok, 2003
79 kr
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'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who …
Spirit of the Age
Victorian Essays
Häftad, 2009
649 kr
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A wide-ranging collection of Victorian writings by John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and other leading lights of the eraNone of the stereotypes of Victorian England—narrow-minded, inhibited, moralistic, complacent—prepares us for the vitality, variety, and above all extraordinary …
Poverty and Compassion
The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians
E-bok, 2010
186 kr
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In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they radical or conservative. From the Trade Paperback edition.
On Looking Into the Abyss
Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
E-bok, 2010
181 kr
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In these provocative essays, one of our most distinguished historians looks into the abyss of the present. Himmelfarb exposes the intellectual and spiritual impoverishment of some of our most fashionable current ideas--and shows how the vogue for historical structuralism has made it possible to …
One Nation, Two Cultures
A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Rev olution
E-bok, 2010
76 kr
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In One Nation, Two Cultures , one of today''s most respected and articulate cultural critics gives us a penetrating examination of the gulf between the two sides of American society -- a divide that cuts across class, racial, ethnic, political, and sexual lines. While one side originated in the …
New History and the Old
Critical Essays and Reappraisals, Revised Edition
Häftad, 2004
373 kr
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For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and the writing of history, Gertrude Himmelfarb adds four insightful and provocative essays dealing with changes in the discipline over the past twenty years.In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. …
The De-moralization Of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values
Häftad, 1996
287 kr
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Roads to Modernity
The British, French and American Enlightenments
E-bok, 2008
147 kr
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Gertrude Himmelfarb's elegant and wonderfully readable work, The Roads to Modernity, reclaims the Enlightenment from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and in …
Moral Imagination
From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling
Häftad, 2012
603 kr
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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 …
Moral Imagination
From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling
E-bok, 2012
695 kr
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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 …
Victorian Minds
A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transition
E-bok, 1995
221 kr
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Where "Victorianism" once conjured up an image of smugness, hypocrisy, and mindlessness, it now suggests quite the reverse: an age of high intellectual, moral, and spiritual tension, in which the typical problems of modernity were posed in their most acute forms. Gertrude Himmelfarb''s …
Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
Häftad, 1996
277 kr
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In her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, Gertrude Himmelfarb brings massive documentation to bear in challenging the conventional view of Darwin's greatness. Touching on biography, history, and philosophy, she traces the origins and …
Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians
Häftad, 2001
220 kr
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In these brilliant essays, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America’s most respected scholars of Victorian thought and culture, explores the many facets, public and private, of the Victorian idea of morality. Incisively and provocatively she illuminates the "moral imagination" of the Victorians, "the …
Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot
E-bok, 2009
225 kr
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It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew – a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of …
People of the Book
Philosemitism in England, From Cromwell to Churchill
Inbunden, 2011
293 kr
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The history of Judaism has for too long been dominated by the theme of antisemitism, reducing Judaism to the recurrent saga of persecution and the struggle for survival. The history of philosemitism provides a corrective to that abysmal view, a reminder of the venerable religion and people that …
People of the Book
Philosemitism in England, From Cromwell to Churchill
E-bok, 2011
327 kr
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The history of Judaism has for too long been dominated by the theme of antisemitism, reducing Judaism to the recurrent saga of persecution and the struggle for survival. The history of philosemitism provides a corrective to that abysmal view, a reminder of the venerable religion and people that …
Past and Present
The Challenges of Modernity, from the Pre-Victorians to the Postmodernists
E-bok, 2017
318 kr
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Past and Present brings together almost two dozen newly collected essays by the distinguished American historian and cultural critic, Gertrude Himmelfarb. Their common theme is the intriguing, often unexpected ways in which the past illuminates the present. The novelist William Faulkner wrote that …
Jews & Gentiles
Inbunden, 2007
234 kr
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Milton Himmelfarb, perhaps best known for his quip that Jews earned like Episcopalians but voted like Puerto Ricans, was one of the most unfairly neglected essayists of his time. Now his sister, the distinguished historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, brings together the essential core of his social, …
Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot
Inbunden, 2009
256 kr
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It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew -- a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of …
Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot
Häftad, 2012
168 kr
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It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew -- a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of …
Past and Present
The Challenges of Modernity, from the Pre-Victorians to the Postmodernists
Inbunden, 2017
212 kr
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