Words & Worlds
Lionel Trilling's The Liberal Imagination
Lionel Trilling occupies a distinctive place in twentieth-century intellectual history as a critic who consistently blurred the boundaries between literature, politics, and moral philosophy. Writing primarily in mid-century America, Trilling...
Lionel Trilling's The Liberal Imagination
Lionel Trilling occupies a distinctive place in twentieth-century intellectual history as a critic who consistently blurred the boundaries between literature, politics, and moral philosophy. Writing primarily in mid-century America, Trilling...
F. R. Leavis and The Great Tradition
I. The Social, Political, and Cultural Thought of Sir F. R. Leavis Introduction Sir F. R. Leavis stands as one of the most influential and controversial figures in twentieth-century English...
F. R. Leavis and The Great Tradition
I. The Social, Political, and Cultural Thought of Sir F. R. Leavis Introduction Sir F. R. Leavis stands as one of the most influential and controversial figures in twentieth-century English...
Sir James George Frazer and The Golden Bough
I. Social, Political, and Cultural Thought of Sir James George Frazer Introduction Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941) occupies a central position in the development of modern anthropology and comparative religion....
Sir James George Frazer and The Golden Bough
I. Social, Political, and Cultural Thought of Sir James George Frazer Introduction Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941) occupies a central position in the development of modern anthropology and comparative religion....
Irving Babbitt's Democracy and Leadership
Irving Babbitt stands as one of the most influential yet frequently misunderstood figures in twentieth-century intellectual history. As a literary critic, cultural theorist, and moral philosopher, Babbitt articulated a sustained...
Irving Babbitt's Democracy and Leadership
Irving Babbitt stands as one of the most influential yet frequently misunderstood figures in twentieth-century intellectual history. As a literary critic, cultural theorist, and moral philosopher, Babbitt articulated a sustained...
Roger Scruton and Beauty: A Very Short Introduc...
Roger Scruton stands as one of the most influential conservative philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. A prolific author, aesthetician, public intellectual, and defender of the “West’s...
Roger Scruton and Beauty: A Very Short Introduc...
Roger Scruton stands as one of the most influential conservative philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. A prolific author, aesthetician, public intellectual, and defender of the “West’s...
THOMAS CARLYLE and PAST AND PRESENT
Thomas Carlyle stands as one of the most forceful and unsettling voices of nineteenth-century British thought. Writing at a time of industrial expansion, democratic agitation, and religious uncertainty, he rejected...
THOMAS CARLYLE and PAST AND PRESENT
Thomas Carlyle stands as one of the most forceful and unsettling voices of nineteenth-century British thought. Writing at a time of industrial expansion, democratic agitation, and religious uncertainty, he rejected...