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Lionel Trilling

The Liberal Imagination

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The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling's essays examine the promise -and limits-of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal belief in rationality, progress, and the panaceas of economics and other social sciences, and asserting in their stead the irreducible complexity of human motivation and the tragic inevitability of tragedy. Only the imagination, Trilling argue… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-59017-551-4
  • EAN: 9781590175514
  • Produktnummer: 15734821
  • Verlag: New York Review Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 388 KB

Über den Autor


Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) was an American literary critic, author, and University Professor at Columbia University. Among the most influential of his many works are two collections of essays, The Liberal Imagination and The Opposing Self; a critical study of E.M. Forster; and one novel, The Middle of the Journey. Louis Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of Discovering Modernism, The Metaphysical Club, American Studies, and The Marketplace of Ideas.

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