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This trait arose as a radical goal of thinkers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau according to Marshall Berman’s first book, which is titled for the “Politics” of this trait. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this trait that became the focus of Rousseau, and later the Romantics, according to a 1972 book by Lionel Trilling. That book traces the cultural shift toward this personal trait and away from a form of social truth.
ANSWER: authenticity [or word forms like authentic] (Trilling’s book is Sincerity and Authenticity.)
[10m] This author cited Berman and Trilling’s views in the chapter “The Search for Authenticity,” which imagines Rousseau working as a flight attendant. This sociologist coined the terms “emotional labor” and “second shift.”
ANSWER: Arlie Hochschild [or Arlie Russell Hochschild]
[10e] Charles Taylor’s The Ethics of Authenticity credits Rousseau with promoting human interiority via a “self-determining” form of this trait. Rousseau’s Social Contract opens by claiming that man is born with this trait.
ANSWER: freedom [or word forms like free]
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