{"title":"Lionel Trilling","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLionel Trilling\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound insights into the interplay of literature, culture, and society. His works explore themes of sincerity, authenticity, and the complexities of human experience with nuanced critical thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect essays and critiques that challenge conventional perspectives within the \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e realm, inviting reflection on the moral and intellectual dimensions of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sincerity-and-authenticity-by-lionel-trilling-9780674808614","title":"Sincerity and Authenticity","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInstances 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 \u003ci\u003eSincerity and Authenticity\u003c\/i\u003e an important place among the works of this distinguished critic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47598275952876,"sku":"9780674808614","price":61.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/0981a7d8d19e723833c51695ad18aa75.jpg?v=1778026551"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/lionel-trilling.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}