Reflective authenticity : rethinking the project of modernity /

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Main Author: Ferrara, Alessandro, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Routledge, 1998
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1 Authenticity and validity -- The caravan at the ford 2 -- Autonomy and authenticity 5 -- The universalism of authenticity 10 -- Authenticity and intersubjectivity 13 -- 2 Postmetaphysical phronesis -- The relevance of phronesis: consonances and dissonances 22 -- Phronesis revisited 26 -- A non-rationalistic rationality 30 -- 3 From Kant to Kant: a normativity without principles -- The question and the answer 38 -- The normativity without principles of the judgment of taste 41 -- Oriented reflective judgment 45 -- 4 Reflective authenticity and exemplary universalism -- Authenticity as a normative category 50 -- Models of authentic subjectivity 53 -- Exemplary universalism: Simmel's lesson 60 -- 5 Post-modern eudaimonia: dimensions of an authentic identity -- The case for a postmetaphysical notion of eudaimonia 71 -- Individual identity and self-fulfillment 74 -- Dimensions of the authenticity of an individual identity 80 -- Concluding remarks 106 -- 6 The fulfillment of collective identities -- The nature of collective identities 108 -- Coherence 112 -- Vitality 118 -- Depth 121 -- Maturity 123 -- Concluding remarks 125 -- 7 Authenticity, the text and the work of art -- The "author's intention" approach 128 -- Interpretation as "fusion of horizons" 131 -- Interpretation as "making the most" of a text 133 -- The text as a symbolic identity 136 -- Interpretation as judgment on the fulfillment of a symbolic identity 139 -- The identity of the work of art 141 -- Concluding remarks 146 -- 8 Rethinking the project of modernity -- Authenticity and the project of modernity 148 -- Radical reflexivity: metaphysical and postmetaphysical 153 -- "Here we stand. We can do no other" 162 -- Notes -- References -- Index.