Closereads: Lionel Trilling on Sincerity @ThePartiallyExaminedLife
Closereads: Lionel Trilling on Sincerity  @ThePartiallyExaminedLife
Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
On Ch. 2 "The Honest Soul and the Disintegrated Consciousness" in Sincerity and Authenticity (1972). This chapter focuses on a reading of Diderot's Rameau's Nephew and what Hegel made of it in the Phenomenology, so it's essentially for us a second opinion re. ⁠what we've been talking about on The Partially Examined Life⁠.

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Closereads: Lionel Trilling on Sincerity

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