Sincerity and authenticity
"Now and then," writes Lionel Trilling, "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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Sincerity and authenticity
"Now and then," writes Lionel Trilling, "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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"Now and then," writes Lionel Trilling, "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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789601679624
Publisher: S. Patakis
Publication date: 11/24/2023
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 979 KB
Language: Greek, Modern (1453- )

About the Author

Ο Λάιονελ Τρίλλινγκ (1905-1975) γεννήθηκε και πέθανε στη Νέα Υόρκη. Από το 1932 και για σαράντα χρόνια δίδαξε αγγλική λογοτεχνία στο Πανεπιστήµιο Κολούµπια. Μετά τη διδακτορική του διατριβή και πρώτο του βιβλίο, Matthew Arnold (1939), και τη µελέτη για τον E. M. Forster (1943), εκδίδει συλλογές δοκιµίων του, ξεκινώντας µε το λαµπρό The Liberal Imagination (1950). Ακολουθούν: The Opposing Self (1955), A Gathering of Fugitives (1956), Beyond Culture (1965). To Ειλικρίνεια και αυθεντικότητα (1972) ήταν το τελευταίο του βιβλίο. Την επόµενη χρονιά εκδόθηκε σε πλακέτα η διάλεξή του Mind in the Modern World. Tο µυθιστόρηµά του The Middle of the Journey εκδόθηκε το 1947. Το Ειλικρίνεια και αυθεντικότητα (Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, 2023) είναι το πρώτο βιβλίο του σπουδαίου κριτικού και στοχαστή που µεταφράζεται και εκδίδεται στα ελληνικά.
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