This series consists of 112 audio cassettes and 1 VHS tape of Lionel Trilling Seminars dating from 1979 to 2001. Many of these recordings have a corresponding manuscript text in the files, but in some cases there is only a recording of a lecture and no paper transcript. Where there are duplicate copies of recordings, it is noted.
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Bailyn, Bernard "Context in History" , 1995 February 2
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Bradley, Bill "Race, Violence and the American Dream," , 1994 April 4
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Bromwich, David "How Moral is Taste?", 1993 April 8
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Dahrendorf, Lord "The Public Responsibility of Intellectuals…", 1994 January 27
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Diggins John "Deconstruction and the American Past" , 1992 February 2
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Gurr, Andrew "Remaking the Past, Or…" , 1994 November 10
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Hollander, John "The City of Thought: Urbanity and Seriousness" , 1992 November 12
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Kennedy, Randall "Racial Pride, Racial Kinship and Other problems" , 1996 April 17
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Kolakonski, Leszek "What is Left of Marxism and the Socialist Idea?" , 1992 April 7
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Menand, Louis "Intellectual Identity After Trilling" , 1995 November 9
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Moynihan, Daniel Patick "The Middle of the Journey: The Middle of the Night" , 1996 February19
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Nagel, Thomas "Relativism and Reason" , 1995 April 6
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Nussbaum, Martha "Need the Recognition…" , 1993 November 18
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Sen, Amartya "India and the West" , 1993 February18
(audio cassettes. Duplicates I and II)
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Vendler, Helen, "The Audience for Poetry" , 1991 November 7
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Richard Ellman "Decadence and the Nineties" , 1979 April 3
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E.H. Gombrich "Style, Skill and Function in Image-Making" , 1979 October 11
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Steven Marcus "Psychoanlaytic Theory and Cultural Change" , 1980 February14
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C. Vann Woodward "American Growing Pains and Apprehensions" , 1980 April 17
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Judith Shklar, "Putting Cruelty First" , 1981 April 21
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Leo Steinberg, "The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and Modern Oblivion" , 1981 November 19
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Christopher Ricks "Prejudice and T.S. Eliot" , 1982 February 2
(3 audio cassettes; one tape is a duplicate copy of Part I)
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Edmund S. Morgan, "The People's Choice: The Electoral Carnival in Eighteenth-Century England and America" , 1982 April 1
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Noam Chomsky, " Linguistics: Recent History and Prospects" , 1982 November 4
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Peter Berger, "The Third World as a Religious Idea" , 1983 February 2
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Anthony Quinton, "Character and Will in Modern Ethics" , 1983 April 5
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Denis Donoghue, "The Intelligentsia at the Current Time" , 1983 November 3
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Robert Darnton, "Rousseau and His Reader: A Problem in History", 1984 February 7
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Ronald Dworkin, "How to Think About Human Rights" , 1984 April 2
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Stanley Hoffman, "Liberalism and International Affairs" , 1984 November 8
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John Bayley, "Character in Modern Criticism" , 1985 February 15
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Robert Nozick, "The Emotion of Happiness" , 1985 April 2
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Diana Trilling, "Biography of a Marriage" , 1985 November 7
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J.G.A. Pockock, "The Post-Whig Interpretation of History" , 1986 February 2
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Gregory Vlastos, "Socratic Irony" , 1986 April 10
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Yosef H. Yerushalmi, "About Freud's Moses and Monotheism" , 1986 November 24
(4 audio cassettes, 2 copies of Part I and Part II)
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Peter Brown, " The Philosopher and the Monk: Two Late Antique Opinions" , 1987 February 11
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Pearl Bell, "From the Lighthouse: Women and Fiction Today", 1987 April 6
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Carl Schorske, " Scholarly Ethos and Civic Culture: The Case of Basel" , 1987 October 21
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John Searle, "What's Wrong with the Philosophy of the Mind?", 1988 February 8
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Edmund Wilson, "The Relation Between Biology and the Social Sciences" , 1988 April 6
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Arthur Danto, "Narratives of the End of Art" , 1988 November 14
(audio cassette; Part I missing, only Part II exists)
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Jaroslav Pelikan, "Some Patterns in the Development of Christian Doctrine" , 1989 February 1
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Denis Mack Smith, "The Relationship Between Traditional Nationalism and the Development of Fascism in Italy" , 1989 April 4
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Henry Rosovsky, "Education: Recent Discontents in Perspective" , 1990 November 7
(6 audio cassettes. There are 3 copies of both parts of this recording)
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Bynum, Caroline, "'Am I My Body?' Medieval Theories of Bodily Resurrection and Some Modern Implications" , 1991 February 20
(4 audio cassettes; 2 copies of both parts of this recording)
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Tzvetan Todorov, "Facing Evil: Shoah and Primo Levi" , 1991 April 8
(2 audio cassettes; two copies of same recording)
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Abba Eban, "The Peace Process in the Middle East" , 1996 November 18
(6 audio cassettes; 3 copies of both parts of the recording)
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Stephen Holmes, "Can Weak-State Liberalism Survive?" , 1997 February 13
(3 audio cassettes; 3 copies of same recording)
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Michael Scammell, " Good News from Transylvania?: Prospects for Liberalism in Russia and Eastern Europe" , 1997 April 17
(3 audio cassettes; 3 copies of same recording)
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Richard Taruskin, "Stravinsky and Us", 1997 November 11
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Hans Belting, " The Memory of the Masterpiece: Reflections on Myth and Modern Art" , 1998 April 1
(3 audio cassettes; one duplicate)
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Ian Buruma, "The Fatal Attraction of Victimhood", 1998 November 5
(3 audio cassettes; 3 copies of same recording)
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Quentin Skinner, "Ancient Laughter and Modern Philosophy" , 1999 March 25
(5 audio cassettes; duplicates)
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Brian Stock, Robert Dartan and Thomas Flanagan, "The Lionel Trilling Seminar" at Roone Arldege Auditorium, 2001 October 16