The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent
Author | : John Erskine |
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Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Author | : John Erskine |
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Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Author | : HardPress |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2013-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781313436922 |
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Author | : John Erskine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2015-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781296516093 |
Author | : John Erskine (Professor of English.) |
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Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Thought and thinking |
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Author | : John Erskine (Ecrivain.) |
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Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Author | : Lionel Trilling |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 753 |
Release | : 2001-10-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1466832142 |
A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work has been discussed and hotly debated, yet today, when writers and critics claim to be "for" or "against" his interpretations, they can hardly be well acquainted with them, for his work has been largely out of print for years. With this re-publication of Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many new generations a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The essays collected here include justly celebrated masterpieces--on Mansfield Park and on "Why We Read Jane Austen"; on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Isaac Babel; on Keats, Wordsworth, Eliot, Frost; on "Art and Neurosis"; and the famous Preface to Trilling's book The Liberal Imagination. This exhilarating work has much to teach readers who may have been encouraged to adopt simpler systems of meaning, or were taught to exchange the ideals of reason and individuality for those of enthusiasm and the false romance of group identity. Trilling's remarkable essays show a critic who was philosophically motivated and textually responsible, alive to history but not in thrall to it, exercised by art but not worshipful of it, consecrated to ideas but suspicious of theory.
Author | : Harold A. Prichard |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Harold Arthur Prichard |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Duty |
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Author | : Lionel Trilling |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2012-07-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1590175514 |
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 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 necessary—and ever more remote.
Author | : Sam Harris |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011-09-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 143917122X |
Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.