The moral imagination
Subtitle: from Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling
By: Gertrude Himmelfarb
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781442218291; 9781442218307
Subjects: Philosophy; Political science; Modern Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Adam Smith : political economist cum moral philosopher; title: Edmund Burke : apologist for Judaism?; title: George Eliot : the wisdom of Dorothea; title: Jane Austen : the education of Emma; title: Charles Dickens : "a low writer"; title: Benjamin Disraeli : the Tory imagination; title: John Stuart Mill : the other Mill; title: Walter Bagehot : a divided nature; title: Lord Acton : the historian as moralist; title: Alfred Marshall : the economics of chivalry; title: John Buchan : an untimely appreciation; title: The Knoxes : a God-haunted family; title: Michael Oakeshott : the conservative disposition; title: Winston Churchill : quite simply, a great man; title: Lionel Trilling : the moral imagination.