Chicago Open 2008: The End Comes…Beyond the Omega Point  Packet by Dodongo Dislikes Smoke  
Chicago Open 2008: The End Comes…Beyond the Omega Point  Packet by Dodongo Dislikes Smoke  (Ahmad Ragab, Ray Luo, Matt Lafer, Kelly Tourdot)  Tossups  This man's set of essays, Sincerity and Authenticity, discusses the moral self in post-Enlightenment western civilization. In one work, he analyzes the symbolism of prisons in Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit as a metaphor for the cohesive and confining elements of culture. In his only finished novel, a young political turncoat named John Laskell angers a group of intellectuals summering in Connecticut, The Middle of the Journey. Earlier in his career, he published two studies of Matthew Arnold and E.M. Forester, and his other works include Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture and The Opposing Self. This member of the "New York intellectuals" informed the neo-conservative movement in his landmark work The Liberal Imagination. FTP, name this American literary critic who frequently contributed to the Partisan Review and the Kenyon Review.
Chicago Open 2008: The End Comes…Beyond the Omega Point  Packet by Dodongo Dislikes Smoke  
Lionel {Trilling}