Sincerity and Authenticity - Rilegato

Trilling, Lionel

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0192151975 ISBN 13: 9780192151971

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 1972

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

At the time of his death in 1975, Lionel Trilling was University Professor at Columbia University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0192151975
• ISBN 13: 9780192151971
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 198