The liberal imagination
essays on literature and society
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Word Count
75,750 words, Guess
Page Count
303 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100684147319
- ISBN-100684147327
- ISBN-139780684147314
- ISBN-139780684147321
- LibraryThing237468
and 4 more
- Goodreads3523762', '402313
- Library of Congress Control Number76013426
- OCLC Control Number2419582
- Open LibraryOL4883826M
Classifications
- DDC814/.5/2
- LCCPS3539.R56 L5 1976
Description
"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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