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1 online resource (188 pages) |
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The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures |
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Sincerity: its origin and rise -- The honest soul and the disintegrated consciousness -- The sentiment of being and the sentiments of art -- The heroic, the beautiful, the authentic -- Society and authenticity -- The authentic unconscious |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Authenticity (Philosophy) |
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Sincerity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Sincerity.
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Authenticity (Philosophy)
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy
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philosophy.
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Happiness.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Philosophy.
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Authenticity (Philosophy)
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Sincerity.
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Sincérité.
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Authenticité (philosophie)
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674044463 |
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0674044460 |
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