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Lionel Trilling

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Imagination

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Lionel Trilling is saying that the political beliefs held by educated people do not engage with the emotional or creative parts of the mind. In other words, their ideas are disconnected from the deeper, imaginative experiences that shape how people truly feel and think.

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