The Liberal Imagination

Author: Lionel Trilling
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ISBN: B005SGW5BS

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The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Get The Liberal Imagination literature books for free.
Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling's essays examine the promise -and limits-of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naAve 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 Check The Liberal Imagination our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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