Description: "Now and then," writes Lionel Triling "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself." In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one's self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life--and the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity. Instances range over the whole of Western literature and thought, from Shakespeare to Hegel to Sartre, from Robespierre to R.D. Laing, suggesting the contradictions and ironies to which the ideals of sincerity and authenticity give rise, most especially in contemporary life. Lucid, and brilliantly framed, its view of cultural history will give Sincerity and Authenticity an important place among the works of this distinguished critic.
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EAN: 9780674808614
UPC: 9780674808614
ISBN: 9780674808614
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Item Length: 20.8 cm
Book Title: Sincerity and Authenticity
Item Height: 213mm
Item Width: 140mm
Author: Lionel Trilling
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Literature, Literary Theory
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 1974
Item Weight: 227g
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
