The History and Ethics of Authenticity: Meaning, Freedom, and Modernity
Kyle Michael James Shuttleworth, "The History and Ethics of Authenticity: Meaning, Freedom, and Modernity"
English | ISBN: 1350163422 | 2020 | 224 pages | PDF | 11 MB
English | ISBN: 1350163422 | 2020 | 224 pages | PDF | 11 MB
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,
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