did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780393080988

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)

by
  • ISBN13:

    9780393080988

  • ISBN10:

    0393080986

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-07-16
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

List Price: $27.68 Save up to $9.74
  • Buy Used
    $20.76

    USUALLY SHIPS IN 2-4 BUSINESS DAYS

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

People have long been duped by straight-talking politicians, confessional talk-show hosts, and fake-earnestadvertisers. As sincerity has become suspect, the upright and honest have takenrefuge in irony. Yet our struggle for authenticity in back-to-the-woods movements,folksy songwriting, and a craving for plainspoken presidential candidatesbetrays our longing for the holy grail of sincerity. Bringing deep historicalperspective and a brilliant contemporary spin to Lionel Trilling's 1972 Sincerity andAuthenticity, R. Jay Magill Jr.argues that we can't shake sincerity's deep theological past, emotionalresonance, and the sense of conscience it has carved in the Western soul. FromProtestant theology to paintings by crazy people, from French satire to theanti-hipster movement, Magill navigates history, religion, art, and politics tocreate a portrait of an ideal that, despite its abuse, remains a strangemagnetic north in our secular moral compass.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 11
Reform Thyself!p. 23
A Saint's Heartp. 45
Those Tricky Bourgeois Gentlemenp. 61
Natural Man Redeemedp. 79
Romantic Escapesp. 94
Cascading Cynicismp. 118
Long Live "Sincerity"p. 168
Hip Affected Earnestnessp. 194
Hipster Semiotic Appendixp. 215
Epiloguep. 223
Acknowledgmentsp. 235
Notesp. 239
Bibliographyp. 249
Indexp. 259
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program