The moral imagination : from Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling / / Gertrude Himmelfarb

• Autore: Himmelfarb Gertrude
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
• Disciplina: 190
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy, Modern; Political science - Philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: THE Moral Imagination; Contents; Introduction; 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; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The moral imagination
• ISBN: 1-283-63938-6; 1-4422-1830-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824004203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II