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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" --

Author

Lionel Trilling

Publisher

Charles Scribner's Sons

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684147321

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.94 / 5 (190 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14