Articles By Gertrude Himmelfarb
July/August 2012
The Wealth of Nations should not be seen as separate from Smith's moral philosophy — it itself is a profoundly moral text
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May 2009
‘Tocqueville made the case for the philosophy of the second-best’
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April 2009
America's greatest critic put moral imagination at the heart of his literary and social criticism
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About Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb is an American historian and author. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2004 received the National Humanities Medal awarded by the President. Her book, The Moral Imagination, is published by Rowman and Littlefield. She is on the Advisory Board of Standpoint.
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