Sincerity and Authenticity

Title: Sincerity and Authenticity
Author: Lionel Trilling
F: 1703722
ISBN: 0674808606
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1972
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 200
Section: Self-Help | Personal Growth | Happiness
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Publisher 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.