The liberal imagination
By: by Lionel Trilling ; introduction by Louis Menand.
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781590172834
Subjects: Literature and society
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" --