The moral imagination
Subtitle: from Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling
By: Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Subjects: Philosophy, Modern.; Political science -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Edmund Burke : apologist for Judaism?; value: George Eliot : the wisdom of Dorothea; value: Jane Austen : the education of Emma; value: Charles Dickens : "a low writer"; value: Benjamin Disraeli : the Tory imagination; value: John Stuart Mill : the other Mill; value: Walter Bagehot : "a divided nature"; value: John Buchan : an untimely appreciation; value: The Knoxes : a God-haunted family; value: Michael Oakeshott : the conservative disposition; value: Winston Churchill : "quite simply, a great man"; value: Lionel Trilling : the moral imagination.