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
At the time of his death in 1975, Lionel Trilling was University Professor at Columbia University.
A beautifully written book, its tone admirably judged and perfectly
sustained… It is wide, fastidious, and deeply thoughtful in its
range of reference…Temperate, controlled and delicately scrupulous,
it is a tribute if ever there was one to the ‘honest
consciousness.’
*Times Literary Supplement*
Sincerity and Authenticity is not only about literature but is a
literary performance itself. From page to page, Trilling expresses
and articulates complex movements of thought and feeling through
his modulated style, the dialectical structure and rhythm of his
sentences and paragraphs. In this book, as in others, he writes to
advance an argument and to resist and revise it—and, in the
process, to trouble and complicate our responses as readers.
*Society*
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