The moral imagination : from Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling / Gertrude Himmelfarb.
2012
B791 .H56 2012
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Title
The moral imagination : from Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling / Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Author
Edition
2nd ed.
ISBN
1442218304 (electronic bk.)
9781442218307 (electronic bk.)
9781442218291 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1442218290 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781283639385
1283639386
9781442218307 (electronic bk.)
9781442218291 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1442218290 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781283639385
1283639386
Imprint
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
B791 .H56 2012
System Control No.
(OCoLC)839670613
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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Print version: Himmelfarb, Gertrude. Moral imagination. 2nd ed. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012
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