In American Fiction in the Cold War Thomas Hill Schaub makes it clear that Trilling’s summary was in itself a mythic reconstruction, a prominent example of the way liberal writers in the late 1940s and 1950s came to terms with their political past.
ISBN:
9780299128449
Author:
Thomas Hill Schaub
Page:
216
Binding:
Soft cover
Publication date:
1991
Format:
Book
Publisher:
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Language:
English
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Description
Schaub’s book brilliantly analyzes their efforts to reshape an “old” liberalism alleged to hold naively optimistic views of human nature, scientific reason, and social progress into a “new,” skeptical liberalism that recognized the persistence of human evil, the fragility of reason, and the ambiguity of moral decision.