TY - GEN AU - Himmelfarb, Gertrude TI - Moral imagination: from Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling SN - 9781442218291 U1 - 190 PY - 2012/// CY - Lanbam PB - Rowman & littlefield publishers KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Political science Philosophy N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -