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082			_a179.9 _bTRI
100			_aTrilling, Lionel
245			_aSincerity and authenticity : the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, 1969-1970
260			_bHarvard University Press, _c1971 _aCambridge :
300			_a188 p. ; _c21 cm
365			_b30.00 _cUSD _d77.30
490			_aCharles Eliot Norton lectures ; _v1969-1970.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 173-184) and index.
520			_aAnnotation. "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.
650			_aSincerity
650			_aAuthenticity
650			_aMoral life
650			_a Consciousness
650			_aSentiment
650			_a Unconsciousnes
650			_aSoul
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