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Vor 5 Tagen · But none perhaps has done so as penetratingly as Gertrude Himmelfarb, the American historian, in ‘Does history talk sense?’. There she describes the regime Oakeshott imposes on the historian as ‘austere and difficult’, in one sense ‘exceedingly modest’, and in another ‘exceedingly ambitious’.
- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
- 1933
Vor 2 Tagen · The others—Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Hannah Arendt, and Lionel Trilling—each come in for their 30 lashes with a wet noodle for having turned liberalism into a more cautious and realistic approach to politics. (And, of course, much to the chagrin of Moyn, Shklar’s thought also matured with age, coming to resemble the rest of the Cold War crowd.)
Vor 4 Tagen · The historian Gertrude Himmelfarb died at the very end of last year but had she lived she may have been the quickest to understand our present tumult. Himmelfarb was a perceptive scholar of the Victorians and in particular their ideas about virtue, which rested, she contended, on a ‘continuum of manners and morals’.
Vor 4 Tagen · What about the unsurpassed intellectual and artistic achievements of Westerners going back to ancient times: the Greek invention of dialectics, the polis, philosophy, historical writing, prose writing, and tragic poetry; the Hellenistic ‘revolution’ in the natural sciences, Aristarchus and his heliocentric hypothesis, Eratosthenes and his estima...
Vor 3 Tagen · Dieser Artikel stellt eine chronologisch sortierte Liste von Söhnen und Töchtern von New York City dar. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 18. Jahrhundert. 2 19. Jahrhundert. 2.1 1801–1840. 2.2 1841–1870. 2.3 1871–1880. 2.4 1881–1890. 2.5 1891–1900. 3 20. Jahrhundert. 3.1 1901–1910. 3.2 1911–1920. 3.3 1921–1930. 3.4 1931–1940. 3.5 1941–1950. 3.6 1951–1960.
Vor 3 Tagen · Meet 17 extraordinary women who have shattered glass ceilings and paved the way for future generations. From discovering new elements to pioneering computer programming, these female scientists and innovators have left an indelible mark on history. Their stories are not just about achievements but also about perseverance, curiosity, and passion.
Vor einem Tag · I want to discuss recent favorite of mine, Lydia Jaeger's Ordinary Splendor: Living in God's Creation (2023), which is a remarkably beautiful book.
