Gertrude Himmelfarb: 10 books
Victorian Minds
A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
Where "Victorianism" once conjured up an image of smugness, hypocrisy, and mindlessness, it now suggests quite the reverse: an age of high intellectual, moral, and spiritual tension, in which the typical problems of modernity were posed in their most acute forms. Gertrude Himmelfarb's distinguished...
The Moral Imagination
From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
In 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...
Past and Present
The Challenges of Modernity, from the Pre-Victorians to the Postmodernists
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Past and Present brings together almost two dozen 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 past illuminates the present. The novelist William Faulkner wrote that...
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
It 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...
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Lord Acton is the author of the maxim, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." In this intellectual biography, Gertrude Himmelfarb regards Acton as a man more of our age than of his own. He was a Liberal Catholic and a distinguished historian, and his vigorous denunciations...
One Nation, Two Cultures
A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Rev olution
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In 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...
On Looking Into the Abyss
Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In 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.
Poverty and Compassion
The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In 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.
The Roads to Modernity
The British, French, and American Enlightenments
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 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...
The People of the Book
Philosemitism in England, From Cromwell to Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The 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...