Reflective Authenticity

Alessandro Ferrara

ISBN 10: 041513062X / ISBN 13: 9780415130622

Published by Routledge Sep 1998, 1998

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Reflective 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. 200 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reflective Authenticity
• Publisher: Routledge Sep 1998
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041513062X
• ISBN 13: 9780415130622
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 11D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 313 grams

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Synopsis

It will be essential reading for all those interested in continental philosophy, political and social theory and pyschoananlysis.

About the Author

Alessandro Ferrara is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” He is the author of Modernity and Authenticity: A Study of the Social and Ethical Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1993) and of Justice and Judgment. The Rise and the Prospect of the Judgment Model in Contemporary Political Philosophy (1998).