On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society by Himmelfarb, Gertrude

On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679759232)

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On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society by Himmelfarb, Gertrude

On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society

$17.00
On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society by Himmelfarb, Gertrude

On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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In these provocative essays, one of our most distinguished historians looks into the abyss of the present. Himmelfarb exposes the intellectual and spiritual impoverishment of some of our most fashionable current ideas--and shows how the vogue for historical structuralism has made it possible to trivialize the tragedy of the Holocaust.

Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb
ISBN-10: 0679759239
ISBN-13: 9780679759232
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/31/1995
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.21w x 0.63d
By Gertrude Himmelfarb
By Gertrude Himmelfarb
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Gertrude Himmelfarb taught for 23 years at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where she was named distinguished professor of history in 1978. Now professor emeritus, she lives with her husband, Irving Kristol, in Washington, DC. Her books include The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values; On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society; Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians; The New History and the Old; Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians; The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age; On Liberty and Liberalism: The Case of John Stuart Mill; Victorian Minds (nominated for a National Book Award); Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution; and Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics.

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