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The liberal imagination: essays on literature and society

✍ Scribed by Trilling, Lionel

Publisher
New York Review Books
Year
2012;2008
Tongue
English
Weight
192 KB
Edition
4
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1590175514

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✦ Synopsis

Reality in America -- Sherwood Anderson -- Freud and literature -- The Princess Casamassima -- The function of the little magazine -- Huckleberry Finn -- Kipling -- The immortality ode -- Art and neurosis -- The sense of the past -- Tacitus now -- Manners, morals, and the novel -- The Kinsey Report -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Art and fortune -- The meaning of a literary idea.;"Trilling's essays examine the promise, and limits, of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naive 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"--

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