The History and Ethics of Authenticity

Meaning, Freedom, and Modernity

Kyle Michael James Shuttleworth (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-18640-8 (ISBN)

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Addressing the post-enlightenment problems of meaning and freedom, Kyle Michael James Shuttleworth traces the historical development of the ethics of authenticity in a lucid and vigorous study. The emergence of authenticity as an ethical ideal is probed in relation to the rise of social freedom and individualism which opens up conversations and disagreements with the German Idealists, and later, Habermas, Foucault, and MacIntyre. Taking heed of these intellectual predecessors and proponents of ethical authenticity leads to an original conception of a socio-existential account of ethical authenticity, made possible by the work of both Taylor and Sartre.

Moving beyond virtue ethics, discourse ethics and Foucauldian notions of self-care, The History and Ethics of Authenticity constructs a practical ethics of authenticity that is both embedded in and able to transcend the current moment. Making use of contemporary reference points, including the rise of social media, capitalist branding, and competing appeals to identity, authenticity becomes an achievable ethical ideal.

Kyle Shuttleworth is Visiting Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.

Introduction: A Prelude to the Problem
0.1.What is Authenticity?
0.2.Why Freedom and Meaning?
0.3. A Structural Overview

Part I: The Problem and Resolution

Chapter I: The Problem of Modernity
1.1. What is Modernity?
1.2. Enlightenment: Maturity and Freedom
1.3. Counter-Enlightenment: Nihilism and Disenchantment
1.4. Embracing One’s Fate

Chapter II: Variations on the Concept of Authenticity
2.1. Articulating Authenticity
2.2. Alternative Ethical Ideals
2.3. The Socio-Ethical Turn
2.4. Sartre’s Existential Authenticity
2.5. Taylor’s Ethic of Authenticity

Chapter III: Dimensions of Socio-Existential Authenticity
3.1. What Determines Our Sense of Authenticity?
3.2. How Can We Ensure Our Ideal Is Achievable?
3.3. Where Do Our Choices Derive From?
3.4. What Validates Our Choices?
3.5. Finding Meaning

Part II: Challenges for Authenticity

Chapter IV: Can the Enlightenment Project Be Completed?
4.1. The Project of Modernity
4.2. Completing the Project
4.3. Ethics or Morality?

Chapter V: Is the ‘Self’ A Fiction?
5.1. The Subjection of Individuality
5.2. From Power to Subjection
5.3. Technologies of the Self
5.4. Foucault’s Nietzsche

Chapter VI: Are All Modern Ethics Emotive?
6.1. Modern Culture of Emotivism
6.2. Emotivism and Authenticity
6.3. Practices, Narrative, and Tradition
6.4. Criticisms of MacIntyre’s Virtue Ethics

Chapter VII: Finding Meaning in Freedom
7.1. Picking up the Spear
7.2. Finding Meaning in Freedom
7.3. Can One Be Authentic Within Contemporary Society?
7.4. Concluding Remarks

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-350-18640-6 / 1350186406
ISBN-13	978-1-350-18640-8 / 9781350186408
Zustand	Neuware