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Vor 17 Stunden · This week, it’s Gertrude Himmelfarb’s 1987 paper ‘Victorian Values and Twentieth-Century Condescension’. In it, Himmelfarb argued that Thatcher’s government truly knew what attitudes drove most Britons, and critiqued the ‘social-control’ theory of history, which posits that manners, morality and conventions are all mechanisms of ...
6. Mai 2024 · The historian of political thought Samuel Moyn argues that the liberal intellectuals of the Cold War era—among them Isaiah Berlin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Karl Popper, Judith Shklar, and Lionel Trilling—transformed liberalism but left a disastrous legacy for our time. In his new book “Liberalism Against Itself” Moyn outlines how Cold War liberals redefined the ideals of their movement and ...
24. Apr. 2024 · In the late 1990s, neoconservative historian Gertrude Himmelfarb offered her own “neo-Luddite” dissent. As she wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education , she was “disturbed” by digital technology’s effects on education.
7. Mai 2024 · The Introduction argues that the precocious child is a neglected but productive focus for the study of Victorian literature, childhood, autobiography, and science. It points to the ubiquity of the precocious child in writing of the long nineteenth century, from...
Vor 4 Tagen · Gertrude Himmelfarb, writing in 1952, said, It is only now, while his background recedes even further from sight, that Acton himself is beginning to come, for the first time, clearly into view. It appears that we are privileged to see and understand him as his contemporaries never did. He is of this age more than of his. He is, indeed, one of ...
24. Apr. 2024 · Influenced by the experience of National Socialism and the specter of Soviet communism, figures such as Judith Shklar, Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Hannah Arendt, and Lionel Trilling endeavored to purge liberalism of its utopian, progressive, and even radical elements.
Vor 2 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’.
