{"product_id":"the-moral-imagination-from-edmund-burke-to-lionel-trilling","title":"The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling","description":"\u003cp\u003eGertrude Himmelfarb  one of Americas most distinguished intellectual historians  here explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times: Edmund Burke and John Stuart Mill  Benjamin Disraeli and Winston Churchill  Jane Austen and George Eliot  Charles Dickens and John Buchan  Walter Bagehot and the Knox brothers  Michael Oakeshott and Lionel Trilling. In their distinctive ways  Ms. Himmelfarb argues  they exemplify what Burke two centuries ago and Trilling most recently have called the moral imagination. Behind the drama of ideas that played itself out in the lives and writings of these individuals was the free play of the moral imagination. From her own long engagement with these subjects  Ms. Himmelfarb describes how each of these thinkers  coming from different traditions  responding to different concerns  writing in different genres  shared a moral passion that permeated their work. And it is the liveliness of their imaginations that makes their reflections-on politics and literature  religion and society  marriage and sex-sometimes unpredictable  often controversial  always exciting  and as illuminating and pertinent today as they were then. In this eminently readable book  Gertrude Himmelfarb captures the wit and wisdom-and foibles and frailties-of a dozen memorable writers and thinkers  statesmen among them. The Moral Imagination possesses the clarity and persuasion of Ms. Himmelfarbs best work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984534401077,"sku":"ByrdShop_1566636248","price":92.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781566636247.jpg?v=1770836359","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-moral-imagination-from-edmund-burke-to-lionel-trilling","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}