The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society by Trilling, Lionel; Menand, Louis

NYRB Classics, 2008 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Minor wear, text clean except for pen marks next to the chapter headings on the contents page and a another pen mark on the lower margin of same..

NYRB Classics, 2008-09-23. Paperback. Used: Good.

New York: New York Review Books, 2008. Paperback. pp. 303. 8vo. Lightest selfwear; near fine.

pb. Good+. All pages and cover are intact. Possible minor highlighting and marginalia. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.

NYRB Classics, 2008-09-23. Paperback. New.

NYRB Classics, 2008-09-23. Paperback. Like New.

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

New York: New York Review Books, 2008. Paperback. 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 —and limits—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… Read More

NYRB Classics, 2008-09-23. Paperback. Used:Good.

NYRB Classics, September 2008. Paper Back. New.