Published by Random House Inc, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172833 ISBN 13: 9781590172834
Seller: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Acceptable. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing dust jacket, box, or discs. Damaged item.
Published by NYRB Classics, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172833 ISBN 13: 9781590172834
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by NYRB Classics, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172833 ISBN 13: 9781590172834
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by New York Review Books, New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172833 ISBN 13: 9781590172834
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA, Carrollton, GA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very good. Paperback. 8" X 5". xxii, 303pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling's essays examine the promise â"and limitsâ"of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve 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. Writing with acute intelligence about classics like Huckleberry Finn and the novels of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also on such varied matters as the Kinsey Report and money in the American imagination, Trilling presents a model of the critic as both part of and apart from his society, a defender of the reflective life that, in our ever more rationalized world, seems ever more necessaryâ"and ever more remote.(Publisher).
Published by New York Review Books, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172833 ISBN 13: 9781590172834
Paperback. Condition: New. First published in 1950; out of print for more than 20 years. One of the chillier moments of the Cold War, 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 inevitablity 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. 320p.
Published by New York Review of Books, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172833 ISBN 13: 9781590172834
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 320 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.
Published by NYRB Classics, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172833 ISBN 13: 9781590172834
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
Condition: New.
Published by NYRB Classics, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172833 ISBN 13: 9781590172834
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by NYRB Classics, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172833 ISBN 13: 9781590172834
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. original 1950 Viking Press hard cover - 1st edition 2nd printing - no dust jacket - some staining to cover and page edge - owner's name inside front cover - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy.