莱昂内尔·特里林(Lionel Trilling,1905—1975),出生于美国纽约,就读于哥伦比亚大学,于1932年回校任教,在他长期的和非常杰出的职业生涯中作为一个文学评论家,他在校教英语系。他继承阿诺徳、利维斯以来的批评传统,侧重从社会历史、道德心理的角度评论文学和文化,被称为20世纪中期美国年青一代的思想导师,对当代批评影响甚大。在他的许多作品中,最有影响力的三本散文集:《自由想象》,《反对自我》,《超越文化》;讲座集《诚与真》。莱昂内尔·特里林与作家、评论家戴安娜·特里林结婚。
发表于2024-12-22
The Liberal Imagination 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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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.
He writes with a clarity that is no longer available or possible for us now.
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评分特里林的平衡二元论导致他认为作为时代知识倾向主导的自由主义既值得提倡又需要批评。自由主义作为启蒙的构成形式,提供了独特而理性的道德知识和政治信仰:相信人的潜能,相信对生命的尊重,相信对差异的容纳,相信个人权利和自由的重要,相信宗教和知识自由的必要,相信对政府权力的限制,相信思想开放和温和节制的价值。这一系列观念都以社会与政治组织的存在为前提,所以他们与无政府主义、极端个人主义以及独裁专权同时进行着双重对抗。特里林认为现代的自由主义不仅需要培养多样性和可能性,而且还要尊重复杂性和困难。政治和文学涉及的都是情感与观点,特里林认为政治就是组织人类生活,向目标迈进,向生活的质量迈进,这与文学有着不可避免的联系。纽约知识分子派的政治-美学辩证法(物质物化/现代诗学):肯定民主社会主义,鞭挞大众文化。
The Liberal Imagination 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书