Download or read book Sincerity and Authenticity written by Lionel Trilling and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trilling is concerned with 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.