The liberal imagination
essays on literature and society
by Lionel Trilling
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"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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The liberal imagination: essays on literature and society
1978, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English
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The liberal imagination: essays on literature and society
1976, Scribner
in English
0684147319 9780684147314
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