198 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life. This ideal suggests that one should be true to oneself and lead a life expressive of what one takes oneself to be. However, many contemporary thinkers have pointed out that the ideal of authenticity has increasingly turned into a kind of aestheticism and egoistic... Read more
I. Authenticity: Historical Sources and Theoretical Underpinnings 1. The Sources of Authenticity 2. Authenticity, Social Philosophy and Social Pathologies 3. The Inevitability Thesis II. Towards a Formal Concept of Authenticity 4. Models of Authenticity 5. Authenticity as Authentication and Responsiveness III. The Paradox of Authenticity 6. The Paradox of Authenticity
Biography
Somogy Varga is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Copenhagen. He is also a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabruck, Germany.
"Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal is [Somogy Varga's] first full-length monograph, and it presents us with a scholar who has an extensive knowledge of many areas of moral psychology as well as a solid grasp of the methods of ideology critique. The book engages important issues, addresses them in an intelligent way, and argues effectively for some innovative views." – Charles Guignon, University of South Florida, USA in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
