The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays

by Lionel Trilling (Author), Leon Wieseltier (Editor), Lionel Trilling (Author), Leon Wieseltier (Editor)

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  2008

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  Bringing together the thoughts of one of American literature s sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of Lionel Trilling. Trilling was a strenuous thinker who was proud to think too much. As an intellectual he did not spare his own kind, and though he did not consider himself a rationalist, he was grounded in the world.