Bleak Liberalism

Why is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those calling for wholesale transf

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Bleak Liberalism

Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction......1
1 Bleak Liberalism......18
2 Liberalism in the Age of High Realism......46
3 Revisiting the Political Novel......78
4 The Liberal Aesthetic in the Postwar Era: The Case of Trilling and Adorno......99
5 Bleak Liberalism and the Realism/Modernism Debate: Ellison and Lessing......115
Notes......143
Bibliography......157
Index......165

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