On Looking Into the Abyss

In On Looking Into the Abyss one of our most distinguished historians--author of Victorian Minds and Poverty and Compassion--brings her prodigious learning and authoritative moral vision to bear on the present. In particular, Gertrude Himmelfarb is concerned with exposing the intellectual arrogance and spiritual impoverishment of our most fashionable current ideas--and with tracing their dire consequences for our collective life.Himmelfarb, Gertrude is the author of 'On Looking Into the Abyss' with ISBN 9780679428268 and ISBN 0679428267.