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Sincerity and Authenticity Tots_Gift_Guide and a subculture obsessed withA powerful diagram of the moral life from Shakespeare to the present a book crowded with insights.Geoffrey Hartman, New York Times One of the twentieth centurys foremost literary critics traces the idea of the self across five hundred years of Western cultural history. One cannot both be sincere and seem so, Andr Gide once wrote. Attempting to inhabit sincerity to satisfy social expectations makes it into a posture or a personaa self defeating