The Liberal Imagination (New York Review Books Classics)

The Liberal Imagination (New York Review Books Classics)

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, Trillingâ€™s essays examine the promise â€”and limitsâ€”of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naÃ¯ve 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 argues, can give us access and insight into these realms and only the imagination can ground a reflective and considered, rather than programmatic and dogmatic, liberalism.

Writing with acute intelligence about classics like Huckleberry Finn and the novels of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also on such varied matters as the Kinsey Report and money in the American imagination, Trilling presents a model of the critic as both part of and apart from his society, a defender of the reflective life that, in our ever more rationalized world, seems ever more necessaryâ€”and ever more remote.
Country USA
Brand Trilling, Lionel/ Menand, Louis (INT)
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781590172834
Model 9781590172834
ReleaseDate 2008-09-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590172834

Country	USA
Brand	Trilling, Lionel/ Menand, Louis (INT)
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781590172834
Model	9781590172834
ReleaseDate	2008-09-23
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590172834

The Liberal Imagination (New York Review Books Classics)

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