Today, critics of society often express moral judgments in
activist politics.
In
Kaplan's opinion, however, these
activists lack the unifying "moral imagination" that
inspired the great nineteenth-century writers-Emerson,
Hawthorne, Melville, Cooper, Poe, Whitman, Twain,
and Henry James. We should, Kaplan suggests,
re-examine the great books of the liberal tradition which
arose from the challenge of the democratic ideal as those
authors saw it-the reconciliation of freedom with man's
commitment to society. $12.00
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