Past and present : the challenges of modernity, from the Pre-Victorians to the Postmodernists / Gertrude Himmelfarb.
"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...
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New York ; London :
Encounter Books,
2017.
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| Edition: | First American edition classics. |
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Table of Contents:
- Leo Strauss : ancients and moderns
- William James : once-born and twice-born
- Burke's war on terror, and ours
- Arnold's culture war, and ours
- Bagehot's constitution, and ours
- Churchill's welfare state, and ours
- The Jewish question : then and now
- Carlyle : moralist and immoralist
- Disraeli : der alte Jude
- Cardinal Newman : education and christianity
- T.H. Huxley : evolution and ethics
- Einstein : the scientist as pacifist
- Trilling : the moral imagination, properly understood
- American democracy and its European critics
- Democratic remedies for democratic disorders
- Compassionate conservatism : 18th c. England and 21st c. America
- Our Fourth of July and the Queen's Sixtieth Jubilee
- Victorian values, Jewish values
- For the love of country : civil society and the state
- From postmodernism to transgenderism.