Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal
The quest for authenticity as an ethical ideal can be observed throughout the intellectual history of modernity from the Renaissance to the mid-twentieth century. One of the objectives of this study is to support this fundamental claim with reference to the relevant works of certain writers and phil...
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2023-04-01
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| description | The quest for authenticity as an ethical ideal can be observed throughout the intellectual history of modernity from the Renaissance to the mid-twentieth century. One of the objectives of this study is to support this fundamental claim with reference to the relevant works of certain writers and philosophers selected from different centuries to represent that long period called modernity. While the thinkers whose works are discussed to reach this goal are primarily Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Sartre, several other names are also included in this overview. Another objective of this article is to identify the common aspects of these theoretical and philosophical narratives titled “authenticity-thinking,” and to underscore their conditions of possibility. Relatedly, the main question that this study tries to answer is whether these conditions are still present in postmodernity (F. Jameson), post-postmodernity (J. Nealon), or digimodernity (A. Kirby) that follows modernity. One of the most crucial elements in this study’s assessment of contemporary societies is the figure of autistic subject that is claimed to have replaced the subject of authenticity. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2da7e84ccdfc484a8f3688b48699eca82025-01-05T19:24:38ZengThe English Language and Literature Research Association of TürkiyeIdeas: Journal of English Literary Studies2757-95492023-04-01314457Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical IdealSerhat Uyurkulak0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7717-5402Fenerbahçe UniversityThe quest for authenticity as an ethical ideal can be observed throughout the intellectual history of modernity from the Renaissance to the mid-twentieth century. One of the objectives of this study is to support this fundamental claim with reference to the relevant works of certain writers and philosophers selected from different centuries to represent that long period called modernity. While the thinkers whose works are discussed to reach this goal are primarily Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Sartre, several other names are also included in this overview. Another objective of this article is to identify the common aspects of these theoretical and philosophical narratives titled “authenticity-thinking,” and to underscore their conditions of possibility. Relatedly, the main question that this study tries to answer is whether these conditions are still present in postmodernity (F. Jameson), post-postmodernity (J. Nealon), or digimodernity (A. Kirby) that follows modernity. One of the most crucial elements in this study’s assessment of contemporary societies is the figure of autistic subject that is claimed to have replaced the subject of authenticity. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/3026957authenticitypostmodernitydigimodernismautistic subjectethics |
| spellingShingle | Serhat Uyurkulak Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal Ideas: Journal of English Literary Studies authenticity postmodernity digimodernism autistic subject ethics |
| title | Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal |
| title_full | Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal |
| title_fullStr | Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal |
| title_short | Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal |
| title_sort | postmodernity and authenticity as an ethical ideal |
| topic | authenticity postmodernity digimodernism autistic subject ethics |
| url | https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/3026957 |
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