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11 set 2014 · To say that something is authentic is to say that it is what it professes to be, or what it is reputed to be, in origin or authorship. But the distinction between authentic and derivative is more complicated when discussing authenticity as a characteristic attributed to human beings.
Sincerity and Authenticity is a 1972 book by Lionel Trilling, based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1970 as Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University.
- Lionel Trilling
- 1972
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.
1 lug 2009 · 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.
considerations of sincerity and authenticity will have a great deal to do with our notion of the self, and that the self will be a problematic thing, perhaps we ought to consider how we come to identify the poor old ulti-
Although in these pages i have dealt with authenticity as a criterion of art and as a quality of the personal life which may be either enhanced or diminished by art, I have thus far given scant attention to the specific developments in our contemporary arts by which the preoccupation with authenticity expresses itself.
13 set 2018 · Three different major paradigms of identity formation are distinguished from one another: a sincere identity is constructed through a firm commitment of the self to its social roles; an authentic identity is constructed through the creation of a social persona on the basis of one’s unique and original self; a ‘profilic’ identity, as we call it, ...
