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Rethinking Sincerity and Authenticity - The Ethics of Theatricality in Kant, Kierkegaard, and Levinas (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Sincerity and Authenticity - The Ethics of Theatricality in Kant, Kierkegaard, and Levinas (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Religion and Culture
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This above all: To thine own self be true,"" is an ideal—or
pretense—belonging as much to Hamlet as to the carefully
choreographed realms of today’s politics and social media. But
what if our ""true"" selves aren’t our ""best"" selves?
Instagram’s curated portraits of authenticity often betray the
paradox of our performative selves: sincerity obliges us to be who
we actually are, yet ethics would have us be better. Drawing on the
writings of Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and Emmanuel
Levinas, Howard Pickett presents a vivid defense of ""virtuous
hypocrisy."" Our fetish for transparency tends to allow us to
forget that the self may not be worthy of expression, and may
become unethically narcissistic in the act of expression. Alert to
this ambivalence, these great thinkers advocate incongruent ways of
being. Rethinking Sincerity and Authenticity offers an engaging new
appraisal not only of the ethics of theatricality but of the
theatricality of ethics, contending that pursuit of one’s ideal
self entails a relational and ironic performance of identity that
lies beyond the pure notion of expressive individualism.
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