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- Gertrude Himmelfarb argued that a great deal is lost when a society stops aiming for civic virtue and is content to aim merely for civility.
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Dec 31, 2019 · Gertrude Himmelfarb argued that a great deal is lost when a society stops aiming for civic virtue and is content to aim merely for civility. By David...
Jan 13, 2020 · Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb. First published in the May/June 1991 issue of Humanities magazine. NEH Chairman Lynne V. Cheney talks with historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, the 1991 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, about the cultural and historical legacy of Victorian England.
May 1, 1997 · For the Love of Country – Commentary Magazine. In their zeal against the welfare state, proponents of civil society may end by subverting the idea of citizenship itself. by Gertrude Himmelfarb.
They were the virtues of citizens, not of heroes or saints—and of citizens of democratic countries, not aristocratic ones.”. In many essays and works of commentary, Himmelfarb made a trenchant case that the cultivation of such virtues could help reinforce modern liberal democracy in America and elsewhere.
Gertrude Himmelfarb (August 8, 1922 – December 30, 2019), [1] also known as Bea Kristol, was an American historian. She was a leader of conservative interpretations of history and historiography. She wrote extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Great Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture.
- August 8, 1922, New York City, New York, U.S.
- Milton Himmelfarb (brother)
- 2, including Bill
Kelly Jane Torrance. |. The University of Chicago Magazine. —. Mar–Apr/12. When Gertrude Himmelfarb, AM’44, PhD’50, began her graduate studies in history at Chicago, she couldn’t have imagined the career ahead of her. The 90-year-old historian, who’s been called “the reigning authority on Victorian social thought,” has written ...
Gertrude Himmelfarb. As one of the leading scholars of Victorian studies, Gertrude Himmelfarb has tried to dispel stereotypes about the Victorian world. "It's not quite a respectable word yet," she says. "It's now used as an epithet, as a derogatory or pejorative word meaning excessively puritanical, repressive, oppressive, hypocritical, and so ...
