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John Stuart Mill
‘Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign’. This title includes an essay that dedicated to this ‘one very simple principle’. It records responses to the…
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Gertrude Himmelfarb
Contrasts the Victorian system of virtues with the opportunistic, superficial morality of modern society.
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From one of today’s most respected historians and cultural critics comes a new book examining the gulf in American society–a division that cuts across class, racial, ethnic, political and sexual…
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Contrasting the Enlightenments in the three nations, this book demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, as…
In these brilliant essays, Ms. Himmelfarb explores the many facets, public and private, of the Victorian idea of morality. She invites us to reconsider the complex and colorful panorama of…
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…
A biographical, historical, and philosophical study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, challenging the conventional view of Darwin’s greatness. A thorough and masterly…
Examines why a woman who was firmly labeled an unbeliever would take up the cause of Judaism and its promise of nationhood and statehood.
The history of Judaism has for too long been dominated by the theme of anti-Semitism, reducing Judaism to the recurrent saga of persecution and the struggle for survival. This book…
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Suitable for readers and critics alike, this title unravels the mystery of George Eliot’s final creation - Daniel Deronda - and of Eliot herself.
Past and Present brings together newly collected essays by the distinguished American historian and cultural critic, Gertrude Himmelfarb. Their common theme is the intriguing, often unexpected ways in which the…
One of America’s foremost historians discusses the intellectual arrogance and spiritual impoverishment at the heart of structuralism and shows how they have led to a trivializing of the Holocaust.
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For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and historiography, Himmelfarb adds four new essays. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P…
Contains essays that address a wide range of subjects, including religion, politics, history, science, art, socialism, and feminism, by eminent figures of the Victorian era. This title reflects what the…
Examines the work and thought of reformers, social critics, and philanthropists in late-nineteenth-century England to provide insights into how poverty was regarded.
Gertrude Himmelfarb,Milton Himmelfarb
Milton Himmelfarb, perhaps best known for his quip that Jews earned like Episcopalians but voted like Puerto Ricans, was one of the most unfairly neglected essayists of his time. This…
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Essays On Freedom And Power is a collection of essays written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, a prominent historian, politician, and philosopher of the 19th century. The book contains a…
