Critique of Authenticity (Series in Philosophy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1622737547 ISBN 13: 9781622737543

Publisher: Vernon Press, 2019

Synopsis

The volume provides a critical assessment of the concept of authenticity and gauges its role, significance and shortcomings in a variety of disciplinary contexts. Many of the contributions communicate with each other and thus acknowledge the enormous significance of this politically, morally, philosophically and economically-charged concept that at the same time harbors dangerous implications and has been critically deconstructed. The volume shows that the alleged need or desire for authenticity is alive and kicking but oftentimes comes at a high price, connected to a culture of experts, authority and exclusionary strategies. 

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Claviez holds the chair for Literary Theory at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He has published widely on issues of community, recognition, literary theory and moral philosophy. He is the author of several books and is currently working on a monograph with the title The Metonymic Community: Towards a Poetics of Contingency.

Kornelia Imesch is Professor for Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She focuses her research on national, international and non-Western art and architecture; the art system; the relationship between art, architecture, and branding; art and film; and art and gender.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vernon Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1622737547
• ISBN 13: 9781622737543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 330
• Editor: Claviez Thomas, Imesch Kornelia