[lit-ideas] Re: Moral Imagination
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:11:45 -0700
David,
My mistake, it is Adam Kirsch, in the book Himmelfarb is reviewing who never
encountered Trilling in the mid-1990s.
I don't recall encountering Himmelfarb before; so you are ahead of me there.
Yes, Politics would be very interesting to her - accounting for why she
would emphasize an aspect of Trilling which doesn't seem central to his
interests.
Lawrence
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Moral Imagination
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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