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The moral imagination : from Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling / Gertrude Himmelfarb.
LIBRA - Special B791 .H56 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Himmelfarb, Gertrude.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 259 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2006.
- Summary:
- One of America's most distinguished intellectual historians here explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times, from Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling. "Reminds us why Gertrude Himmelfarb is our foremost historian of morality." Andrew Roberts.
- Contents:
- Edmund Burke : apologist for Judaism?
- George Eliot : the wisdom of Dorothea
- Jane Austen : the education of Emma
- Charles Dickens : "a low writer"
- Benjamin Disraeli : the Tory imagination
- John Stuart Mill : the other Mill
- Walter Bagehot : "a divided nature"
- John Buchan : an untimely appreciation
- The Knoxes : a God-haunted family
- Michael Oakeshott : the conservative disposition
- Winston Churchill : "quite simply, a great man"
- Lionel Trilling : the moral imagination.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-253) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1566636248
- OCLC:
- 61109330
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