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The Roads to Modernity
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment?an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars... more...
The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot
Encounter Books 2009; US$ 15.99It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of English novelists. And it is still more curious... more...
One Nation, Two Cultures
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 12.00In One Nation, Two Cultures , one of today's most respected and articulate cultural critics gives us a penetrating examination of the gulf between the two sides of American society -- a divide that cuts across class, racial, ethnic, political, and sexual lines. While one side originated in the traditional idea of republican virtue, the other emerged... more...
Poverty and Compassion
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 23.00In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they radical or conservative. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
On Looking Into the Abyss
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00In these provocative essays, one of our most distinguished historians looks into the abyss of the present. Himmelfarb exposes the intellectual and spiritual impoverishment of some of our most fashionable current ideas--and shows how the vogue for historical structuralism has made it possible to trivialize the tragedy of the Holocaust. From the Trade... more...
The People of the Book
Encounter Books 2011; US$ 23.95The history of Judaism has for too long been dominated by the theme of antisemitism, reducing Judaism to the recurrent saga of persecution and the struggle for survival. The history of philosemitism provides a corrective to that abysmal view, a reminder of the venerable religion and people that have been an inspiration for non-Jews as well as Jews.... more...
The Moral Imagination
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 29.99In 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.?... more...
Victorian Minds
Ivan R. Dee 1995; US$ 18.99A study of intellectuals in crisis and of ideologies in transition, elegant in style and thought. ?Few works that I know convey the excitement of the intellectual life of 19th-century England as immediately....The essays are remarkable no less for the cogency of their wit than for the range and precision of their scholarship.? ?Lionel Trilling. more...
The Roads to Modernity
Random House 2008; US$ 12.00Gertrude Himmelfarb's elegant and wonderfully readable work, The Roads to Modernity , reclaims the Enlightenment from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and in America. Himmerlfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of... more...
On Liberty
Penguin Books Ltd 2003; Not AvailableOver himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who organized the idea into a philosophy, and put it into... more...
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