The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
Bringing together the thoughts of one of American literature's sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of Lionel Trilling. Trilling was a strenuous thinker who was proud to think too much. As an intellectual he did not spare his own kind, and though he did not consider himself a rationalist, he was grounded in the world.This collection features 32 of Trilling's essays on a range of topics, from Jane Austen to George Orwell and from the Kinsey Report to Lolita, Also included are Trilling's seminal essays Art and Neurosis and Manners, Morals, and the Novel. Many of the pieces made their…
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Weitere Autoren: Wieseltier, Leon (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8101-2488-2
- EAN: 9780810124882
- Produktnummer: 3464802
- Verlag: Northwestern Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 572 S.
- Masse: H20.6 cm x B14.5 cm x D3.3 cm 658 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 658
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Lionel Trilling (1905-75) is the author of the collections Beyond Culture, The Liberal Imagination, and the posthumously published Speaking of Literature and Society. He was a professor at Columbia University. Leon Wieseltier is the editor of The New Republic and lives in New York City.
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