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Sincerity and Authenticity (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

By Lionel Trilling

Book information

Year
1972
ISBN
0674808614, 9780674808614, 0192151975, 9780192151971, 0674808606, 9780674808607, 0192811665, 9780192811660, 0151826455, 9780151826452
LCC
BJ1533.S55 T74
Open Library ID
OL22119140M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
41 MB (43216410 bytes)
Pages
188\202
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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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