9780674808607-0674808606-Sincerity and Authenticity (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

Sincerity and Authenticity (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

ISBN-13: 9780674808607
ISBN-10: 0674808606
Edition: First Edition
Author: Lionel Trilling
Publication date: 1972
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 200 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780674808607
ISBN-10: 0674808606
Edition: First Edition
Author: Lionel Trilling
Publication date: 1972
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 200 pages

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Sincerity and Authenticity (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) (ISBN-13: 9780674808607 and ISBN-10: 0674808606), written by authors Lionel Trilling, was published by Harvard University Press in 1972. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Sincerity and Authenticity (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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"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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