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"Now and then," writes Lionel Triling "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... read more
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- Rousseau: Add a description of this character.
- Diderot
- Freud
- Werther
- Jane Austen
- Marcuse
- Marx
- Marlow
- Kurtz
- Wordsworth
- Ruskin
- Schiller
- Mme Sarraute
- Alceste
- Matthew Arnold
- Rameau
- Robespierre
- Joyce
- Madame Bovary
- Moi
- Marinetti
- Emerson
- Burke
- Carlyle
- Mansfield Park
- Lotte
- Michael
First Sentence edit
NOW AND THEN IT IS POSSIBLE TO OBSERVE the moral life in process of revising itself, perhaps by reducing the emphasis it formerly placed upon one or another of its elements, perhaps by inventing and adding to itself a new element, some mode of conduct or of feeling which hitherto it had not regarded as essential to virtue.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lionel Trilling (Author)
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- Dewey: 179.9
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Reference › Foreign Languages
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy
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