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Article: Gertrude Himmelfarb: The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling.(Book review)
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- April 1, 2006
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Gertrude Himmelfarb The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling. Ivan R. Dee, 259 pages, $26
Readers of Gertrude Himmelfarb's brilliant exercises in historical recuperation know that she is an historian and social commentator of rare perspicacity, learning, and humanity. Her works on the Victorian period--on J. S. Mill, Darwin, Lord Acton, as well as thematic collections of essays dealing with many other figures and issues from the period--are unparalleled in their deployment of the once prized, now neglected faculty that provides the title for her latest collection. It was Edmund Burke, Himmelfarb notes in her introduction, who gave currency to ...