Moral imagination: from Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling/
Gertrude Himmelfarb
- 2nd.
- Lanbam: Rowman & littlefield publishers, 2012.
- xii,313p.
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