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The America of John Dos Passos -- Hemingway and his critics -- T.S. Eliot's politics -- The immortality ode -- Kipling -- Reality in America -- Art and neurosis -- Manners, morals, and the novel -- The Kinsey report -- Huckleberry Finn -- The Princess Casamassima -- Wordsworth and the Rabbis -- William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste -- The poet as hero: Keats in his letters -- George Orwell and the politics of truth -- The situation of the American intellectual at the present time -- Mansfield Park -- Isaac Babel -- The morality of inertia -- "That smile of Parmenides made me think"--The last lover -- A speech on Robert Frost: a cultural episode -- On the teaching of modern literature -- The Leavis-Snow controversy -- The fate of pleasure -- James Joyce in his letters -- Mind in the modern world -- Art, will, and necessity -- Why we read Jane Austen.

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.

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Using a combination of research, and original thought leadership, this book demonstrates how the performing companies have leaders who apply moral values to achieve enduring personal and organizational success. It reveals how companies benefit from the moral intelligence of their leaders and help build specific moral competencies leaders need.

With this re-publication of Lionel Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many generations, a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The exhilarating 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.

John Erskine, in his essay on The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent, has pointed out a most significant error in our stock moral ideals. Anglo-Saxon traditions have always tended to idealize moral courage, strength of will and of character, and to manifest a certain distrust of intelligence. In English literature the hero is so frequently portrayed as the courageous blunderer and the villain as the clever artificer. Witness Milton's Paradise Lost, Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and other works, Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade," and the writings of Dickens and Thackeray. All this seems to be a product of the long struggle of our ancestors against nature in a rather severe climate, which necessitated largely self-reliance and will. This separation of goodness from intelligence is seen in our tendency to make a moral issue out of social evils because, as Erskine suggests, it seems humiliating to confess them a problem for intelligence. This in many respects resembles the Hebrew morality, which emphasized the "heart" in contrast with the Greek stress upon intellect. Erskine sees a hope in our assimilating the culture of other races, of which we should be more tolerant. We need to move our ethics away from the Hebrew and toward the Greek ideal .-- The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 23

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