Filosofia dell’individuo e romanzo moderno. Lionel Trilling tra critica letteraria e storia delle idee

The novelist, literary and cultural critic and historian of ideas Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) was one of the most important figures on the twentieth-century American literary scene. The leading light of the so-called New York Intellectuals, he left a distinctive imprint on the progressive imagination, contributing to the cultural elaboration of some of the most significant moments in American political and intellectual history. For the first time, Philosophy of the Individual and the Modern Novel offers the Italian public an overall portrait of Trilling, guiding the reader through the plurality of reference contexts to discover the originality of his thought.