[lit-ideas] Re: Moral Imagination
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 10:45:45 -0700
On Oct 8, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Lawrence Helm wrote:
> The author of the review, Gertrude Himmelfarb writes that she never
> encountered Trilling when she was an English major in the mid-1990s. I on
> the other hand did encounter him as an English major in the mid-1950s.
I don't understand this. Did she embark on an undergraduate set of courses
after she retired?
> But Himmelfarb lapses into politics as well, drawing a connection between
> Trilling and Irving Kristol.
Himmelfarb "lapses" into politics? Interesting turn of phrase. She's
conservative, married to Kristol, "godfather" of neocons, with a son who's a
prominent conservative commentator. She prefers political history to social
history. She has had a long and important career as a historian of, for
example, Lord Acton, Victorian Virtues, Philosemitism in England from Cromwell
to Churchill.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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