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Sincerity and Authenticity
Lionel Trilling
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Description for Sincerity and Authenticity
Paperback. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Series
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674808614
SKU
V9780674808614
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About Lionel Trilling
At the time of his death in 1975, Lionel Trilling was University Professor at Columbia University.
Reviews for Sincerity and Authenticity
A beautifully written book, its tone admirably judged and perfectly sustained...It is wide fastidious and deeply thoughtful in its range of reference, Temperate, controlled and delicately scrupulous, it is a tribute if ever there was one to the honest consciousness. Times Literary Supplement