Sincerity and authenticity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975.

Series:

Charles Eliot Norton lectures

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sincerity.

Authenticity (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1972.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Surveys Western literature and thought to reveal the evolution of the ideals of sincerity and authenticity. "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.

Contents:

1. Sincerity: Its Origin and Rise 2. The Honest Soul and the Disintegrated Consciousness 3. The Sentiment of Being and the Sentiments of Art 4. The Heroic, and Beautiful, and Authentic 5. Society and Authenticity 6. The Authentic Unconscious Reference Notes Index of Names

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780674504196

0674504194

9780674044463

0674044460

OCLC:

923110481