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Pertile said that what he is looking forward to most in the move to Florence is being able to work with the postdoctoral fellows at the Center.
For starters, it’s a world divided starkly between good and evil, with very little of the cultural relativism that most liberals hold as a core tenet. “I do not believe that we will have the will, the determination, the staying power, to complete this...
The Judeo-Christian overtones here are obvious enough. But to me, at least, Obama’s somewhat oblique reference to the “moral imagination” also recalls the title of Lionel Trilling’s 1950 classic, “The Liberal Imagination.�?...
Trilling’s point in “The Liberal Imagination” was that part of the role of literature is to challenge status quo liberal ideas; while politicians tend to get carried away in abstractions, literature dwells in the details. As Obama continues to unwrap his political...
“I’m looking forward to sharing my life with the fellows and staff of Villa I Tatti, working with these people and taking advantage of the extraordinary sources that the Villa offers in Renaissance studies,” Pertile said in an interview with The...