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  • Moral Imagination
    Gertrude Himmelfarb
    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. ...
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    52,05 €

  • Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians
    Gertrude Himmelfarb
    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 ideas and attitudes, beliefs and behavior, that goes under the name of Victorianism-and it reconsiders as well our own relation to that much abused and misunderstood culture. 'An important bo...
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    24,81 €

  • Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
    Gertrude Himmelfarb
    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 book.'-Times Literary Supplement. ...
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    30,10 €

  • Poverty and Compassion
    Gertrude Himmelfarb
    This is a source book for anyone trying to think about how to make a difference in inner-city America. It is a story of reformers and ideas, of the Salvation Army and the Fabian Society, of high idealism and moral chivalry coupled with naivete and roaring eccentricity. ...
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    21,01 €