Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling (1905-1975), full name Lionel Mordecai Trilling, was a US literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher. He is known for analyzing the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature.

Wisdom & Quotes

• In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, unpleasant.

- Reality in The Liberal Imagination

Jean Paul Sartre