Reflective Authenticity: Rethinking the Project of ModernityReflective Authenticity: Rethinking the Project of Modernity is a challenging consideration of what remains of ambitious Enlightenment ideas such as democracy, freedom and universality in the wake of relativist, postmodern thought. Do clashes over gender, race and culture mean that universal notions such as justice or rights no longer apply outside our own communities? Do our actions lose their authenticity if we act on principles that transcend the confines of our particular communities ? Alessandro Ferrara proposes a path out of this impasse via the notion of reflective authenticity. Drawing on Aristotle, Kants concept of reflective judgement and Heideggers theory of reflexive self-grounding, Reflective Authenticity: Rethinking the Project of Modernity takes a fresh look at the state of Critical Theory today and the sustainability of postmodern politics. |
Contents
1 Authenticity and validity | 1 |
2 Postmetaphysical phronesis | 22 |
a normativity without principles | 37 |
4 Reflective authenticity and exemplary universalism | 50 |
dimensions of an authentic identity | 70 |
6 The fulfillment of collective identities | 108 |
7 Authenticity the text and the work of art | 127 |
8 Rethinking the project of modernity | 148 |
Notes | 165 |
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ability action actor aesthetic anxiety Aristotle aspects authentic subjectivity authenticity-thesis autonomy capacity categorical imperative Chapter cohesion collective identity communicative conceived concept of authenticity congruency constituted context Critique of Judgment cultural Dasein depth distinction Durkheim early modern Edith Jacobson ethics eudaimonia exemplary existence experience fact Freud fulfillment Gadamer Habermas Hegel Heidegger Heidegger’s horizon human idea ideal individual identity individual law integrated internal interpretation intersubjective Jacobson judgment of taste Kant Kant Critique Kant’s Kernberg kind Kohut Linguistic Turn Mahler Margaret Mahler maturity means melancholia Melanie Klein moral needs normative notion of authenticity object one’s orient paradigm person perspective philosophical phronesis pluralism postmetaphysical postmodernism presupposes principle project of modernity psychic psychoanalytic question rationality reality reconstruction reflective judgment relation relevance role Schnädelbach self-realization sense Simmel social specific standpoint subdimension symbolic identity theory tradition understanding understood unique universalism values view of validity vitality vocabulary Weber Winnicott