• The Moral Imagination: From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling Гертруда Химмельфарб
    ISBN: 1442218290, 978-1442218291
    Год издания: 2012
    Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Язык: Английский

    In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. In their distinctive ways, she argues, they exemplify what Burke two centuries ago and Trilling most recently have called the “moral imagination.” Himmelfarb describes how each of these thinkers, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, and writing in different genres, shared a moral passion that permeated their work. It is this passion that makes their reflections—on politics and literature, religion and…

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