Sincerity: How a Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art, Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion that We All Have Something to Say (no Matter how Dull)
Title | Sincerity: How a Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art, Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion that We All Have Something to Say (no Matter how Dull) PDF eBook |
Author | R Jay Magill |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2012-07-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0393080986 |
Explores the history, religion, art, and politics behind the history of sincerity, spanning a timeline dotted with Protestant theology, paintings by the insane, French satire, and the anti-hipster movement.
SINCERITY AND AUTHENTICITY
Title | SINCERITY AND AUTHENTICITY PDF eBook |
Author | Lionel TRILLING |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0674044460 |
“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.
Sincerity
Title | Sincerity PDF eBook |
Author | Yusuf Al-Qaradawi |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2008-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780979211355 |
The Rhetoric of Sincerity
Title | The Rhetoric of Sincerity PDF eBook |
Author | Ernst van Alphen |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0804758271 |
The essays in this volume demonstrate how the performance of sincerity is culturally specific and is enacted in different ways in different media and disciplines, including law and the arts.
Sincerity
Title | Sincerity PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Ann Duffy |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 91 |
Release | 2018-11-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1509893431 |
Her final collection as Poet Laureate, a frank, disarming and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms. Presented in a beautiful, foiled package, this will be the poetry book of the year.
Sincerity After Communism
Title | Sincerity After Communism PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Rutten |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2017-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300213980 |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Sincerity, Memory, Marketing, Media -- 1 History: Situating Sincerity -- 2 "But I Want Sincerity So Badly!" The Perestroika Years and Onward -- 3 "I Cried Twice": Sincerity and Life in a Post-Communist World -- 4 "So New Sincerity": New Century, New Media -- Conclusion: Sincerity Dreams -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
The Politics of Sincerity
Title | The Politics of Sincerity PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Markovits |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2010-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0271046112 |
A growing frustration with “spin doctors,” doublespeak, and outright lying by public officials has resulted in a deep public cynicism regarding politics today. It has also led many voters to seek out politicians who engage in “straight talk,” out of a hope that sincerity signifies a dedication to the truth. While this is an understandable reaction to the degradation of public discourse inflicted by political hype, Elizabeth Markovits argues that the search for sincerity in the public arena actually constitutes a dangerous distraction from more important concerns, including factual truth and the ethical import of political statements. Her argument takes her back to an examination of the Greek notion of parrhesia (frank speech), and she draws from her study of the Platonic dialogues a nuanced understanding of this ancient analogue of “straight talk.” She shows Plato to have an appreciation for rhetoric rather than a desire to purge it from public life, providing insights into the ways it can contribute to a fruitful form of deliberative democracy today.