Cover of The liberal imagination

The liberal imagination

by Lionel Trilling

1950 303 pages eng

"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 inevi…

Borrow to read

This scan is available through Internet Archive's free lending library — sign in or create a free account below, then borrow to read.

Reader not loading? Open it on Archive.org instead.