 | 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 sole intellectual tradition. For it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation."... | |
 | 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...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.... | |
 | 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...the sole intellectual tradition," Trilling wrote. "For it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation."... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...dominant 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... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - Education - 1996 - 468 pages
...collection of essays, he wrore the following senrences, amazing to us today: "In the Unired Stares at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole inrellectual tradition. For it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionaty... | |
 | 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 intellectual tradition. For it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative . . . ideas in general circulation.... | |
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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. 
