Moral imagination: from Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling/ Gertrude Himmelfarb

By:

Himmelfarb, Gertrude

Language: English Publication details: Rowman & littlefield publishers, 2012. Lanbam:Edition: 2ndDescription: xii,313pISBN:

9781442218291

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

190 HIM-M

Contents:

Adam Smith : political economist cum moral philosopher 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 Lord Acton : the historian as moralist Alfred Marshall : the economics of chivalry 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

Summary: The Moral Imagination describes how some of the most provocative thinkers of modern times, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, and writing in different genres, shared a moral passion that permeated their work. The second edition includes a revised introduction and three new essays on Adam Smith, Lord Acton, and Alfred Marshall

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Adam Smith : political economist cum moral philosopher
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
Lord Acton : the historian as moralist
Alfred Marshall : the economics of chivalry
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

The Moral Imagination describes how some of the most provocative thinkers of modern times, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, and writing in different genres, shared a moral passion that permeated their work. The second edition includes a revised introduction and three new essays on Adam Smith, Lord Acton, and Alfred Marshall

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