 | Douglas T. Miller, Marion Nowak - History - 1977 - 484 pages
...ceased to figure in current intellectual discussion." Lionel Trilling went so far as to claim that "in the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition."33 When the existence of left-wing critics was recognized by the liberal intelligentsia,... | |
 | Gene Wise - 1980 - 431 pages
...conservatism as a principle has died out in the American mind. "In the United States at this time," he writes, "liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition. For it is a plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation."3... | |
 | Lawrence H. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 300 pages
...to the inherent conservatism of modern literature. "In the United States at this time," he claimed, "liberalism is not only the dominant but even the...are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation." In its antagonism to liberalism, literature functioned as a "loyal opposition": To the... | |
 | Francis Graham Wilson - Political Science - 1990 - 104 pages
...United States. So late as December l949, Lionel Trilling could write, with small fear of refutation, In the United States at this time liberalism is not...are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation. This does not mean, of course, that there is no impulse to conservatism or to reaction... | |
 | Jonathan Adams, James Luther Adams - Religion - 1991 - 404 pages
...that sought to recall liberalism to its larger vision, Lionel Trilling, the eminent critic, wrote, 'In the United States at this time liberalism is not...dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.' . . . Future critics may find it difficult to identify the Reagan era with any great political traditions... | |
 | E.J. Dionne - Political Science - 2004 - 436 pages
...suspicion. The classic view among these elites was expressed definitively by Lionel Trilling in 1954. "In the United States at this time liberalism is not...dominant, but even the sole intellectual tradition," Trilling wrote. "For it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas... | |
 | Michael Lind - History - 1997 - 310 pages
...conservative intelligentsia in the United States. "In the United States at this time," Trilling wrote, "liberalism is not only the dominant, but even the...are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation." At most, there were conservative impulses that did not express themselves "in ideas,... | |
 | Charles W. Dunn, J. David Woodard - Political Science - 1996 - 212 pages
...CHAPTER ONE The Emergence of Contemporary American Conservatism In the United States at this time [1950], liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole...plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative . . . ideas in general circulation. LIONEL TRILLING1 As World War II ended, liberalism stood as the... | |
 | T. A. M. Schoenmakers - Conservatism - 1996 - 134 pages
...genoot. In 1949 stelde Lionel Trilling in het voorwoord van zijn essaybundel The Liberal Imagination dat 'In the United States at this time liberalism is not...but even the sole intellectual tradition. For it is plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation ...... | |
 | Martin Klepper - American fiction - 1996 - 398 pages
...Über die Grundwerte dieser Generation (im weitesten Sinne den Humanismus) schreibt Trilling (1951:IX): "In the United States at this time liberalism is not...dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition." 80 [...] signs of a denouement begin to appear. A lonely gifted survivor, Beckett, remains to remind... | |
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In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition. For it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation. 
