The Opposing Self
Author | : Lionel Trilling |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Lionel Trilling |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lionel Trilling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : English literature |
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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 | : Ulrich Steinvorth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2009-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052176274X |
In this book, Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking. Steinvorth argues that Descartes' understanding of the self offers a more plausible and realistic alternative to the prevailing understanding of the self formed by the Lockean conception and utilitarianism. When freed from Cartesian dualism, such a conceptualization enables us to distinguish between self and subject. Moreover, it enables us to understand why individualism - one of the hallmarks of modernity in the West - became a universal ideal to be granted to every member of society; how acceptance of this notion could peak in the seventeenth century; and why it is now in decline, though not irreversibly so. Most importantly, the Cartesian concept of the self presents a way of saving modernity from the dangers that it now encounters.
Author | : Julien Gracq |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780231057899 |
With four elegant and beautifully crafted novels Julien Gracq has established himself as one of France's premier postwar novelists. A mysterious and retiring figure, Gracq characteristically refused the Goncourt, France's most distinguished literary prize, when it was awarded to him in 1951 for this book. As the latest work in the Twentieth-Century Continental Fiction Series, Gracq'a masterpiece is now available for the first time in English. Set in a fictitious Mediterranean port city, The Opposing Shore is the first-person account of a young aristocrat sent to observe the activities of a naval base. The fort lies at the country's border; at its feet is the bay of Syrtes. Across the bay is territory of the enemy who has, for three hundred years, been at war with the narrator's countrymen; the battle has become a complex, tacit game in which no actions are taken and no peace declared. As the narrator comes to understand, everything depends upon a boundary, unseen but certain, separating the two sides. Besides the narrator there are two other main characters, the dark and laconic captain of the base and a woman whose compex relations to both sides of the war brings the narator deeper into the story's web. For many French readers The Opposing Shore (published as Le rivage des Syrtes ), with its theme of transgressions and boundaries, spoke to the issue of defeat and the desire to fail: a paticularly sensitive motif in postwar French literature. But there is nothing about the novel tying it either to France or to the 1950s; in fact, Gracq's novel, with its elaborate, richly detailed prose, will be of greater interest now than at any point in the last twenty years.
Author | : Jane Weldon |
Publisher | : Chiron Publications |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2017-04-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1630514039 |
Author | : Alan Philips |
Publisher | : Zola Books |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2018-11-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1939126347 |
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Author | : Christine M. Gamache |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Doubles in literature |
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Author | : Lionel Trilling |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780670160914 |
Author | : Steven Connor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317894103 |
Dickens is second only to Shakespeare in the range and intensity of critical discussion which his work has provoked. His writing is central to literature and culture across the English-speaking world. In this important new anthology, Steven Connor gathers together representative examples of the range of new critical approaches to Dickens over the last two decades.