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Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal

Yıl 2023, Cilt: 3 Sayı: 1, 44 - 57, 10.05.2023

Öz

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.

Kaynakça

  • Flew, Terry. New Media. Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Heidegger, Martin. Basic Writings from Being and Time to The Task of Thinking. Translated by D. F. Krell. Harper Collins, 1993.
  • Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke University Press, 1991.
  • Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death. Translated by W. Lowrie. Princeton University Press, 2013.
  • Kirby, Adam. Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture. Continuum, 2009.
  • Marx, Karl. Early Writings. Translated by R. Livingstone and G. Benton. Penguin, 1992.
  • Montaigne, Michel de. The Complete Essays. Translated by J. M. Cohen. Penguin, 1993.
  • Nealon, Jeffrey T. Post-postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism. Stanford University Press, 2012.
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. Translated by W. Kaufmann. Vintage Books, 1989.
  • "Nudie Jeans Skinny Lin Authentic Repair." Amazon.Com (n.d.), www.amazon.com/Nudie-Jeans-Skinny AuthenticRepair/dp/B07MKQWYVX?th=1. Accessed 2 Oct. 2022.
  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Basic Political Writings. Translated and edited by D. A. Cress. Hackett, 1978.
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness. Translated by H. E. Barnes. Washington Square, 1993.
  • ---. Existentialism is a Humanism. Translated by C. Macomber. Yale University Press, 2007.

Postmodernlik ve Bir Etik İdeal Olarak Otantiklik

Yıl 2023, Cilt: 3 Sayı: 1, 44 - 57, 10.05.2023

Öz

Bir etik ideal olarak otantiklik arayışı Rönesans’tan yirminci yüzyılın ortalarına değin modernliğin tüm düşünsel tarihinde karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amaçlarından biri, kendisine temel oluşturan bu iddiayı bahsi geçen uzun tarihsel dönemi temsilen farklı yüzyıllardan seçilen belli başlı yazar ve filozofların konuyla ilgili eserlerine gönderme yaparak desteklemektir. Bu doğrultuda çalışmalarına değinilen düşünürler arasında başta Rousseau, Nietzsche ve Sartre bulunsa da başka isimlere de yer verilmektedir. Makalenin bir diğer amacı ise tarihsel anlamda izi sürülen ve “otantiklik düşüncesi” olarak adlandırılan bu kuramsal veya felsefi anlatıların ortak özelliklerini belirlemek ve bunları olanaklı kılan koşulların altını çizmektir. Bununla bağlantılı olarak çalışmanın cevaplamaya giriştiği esas soru, söz konusu olanaklılık koşullarının modernlikten sonra gelen postmodernlikte (F. Jameson), post-postmodernlikte (J. Nealon) veya dijimodernlikte de (A. Kirby) mevcut olup olmadığıdır. Bu tartışmanın günümüz toplumlarıyla ilgili yanını oluşturan en önemli unsurlardan biri ise otantikliğin öznesinin yerine geçtiği öne sürülen otistik özne figürüdür.

Kaynakça

  • Flew, Terry. New Media. Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Heidegger, Martin. Basic Writings from Being and Time to The Task of Thinking. Translated by D. F. Krell. Harper Collins, 1993.
  • Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke University Press, 1991.
  • Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death. Translated by W. Lowrie. Princeton University Press, 2013.
  • Kirby, Adam. Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture. Continuum, 2009.
  • Marx, Karl. Early Writings. Translated by R. Livingstone and G. Benton. Penguin, 1992.
  • Montaigne, Michel de. The Complete Essays. Translated by J. M. Cohen. Penguin, 1993.
  • Nealon, Jeffrey T. Post-postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism. Stanford University Press, 2012.
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. Translated by W. Kaufmann. Vintage Books, 1989.
  • "Nudie Jeans Skinny Lin Authentic Repair." Amazon.Com (n.d.), www.amazon.com/Nudie-Jeans-Skinny AuthenticRepair/dp/B07MKQWYVX?th=1. Accessed 2 Oct. 2022.
  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Basic Political Writings. Translated and edited by D. A. Cress. Hackett, 1978.
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness. Translated by H. E. Barnes. Washington Square, 1993.
  • ---. Existentialism is a Humanism. Translated by C. Macomber. Yale University Press, 2007.
Toplam 13 adet kaynakça vardır.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil İngilizce
Konular Edebi Teori, Kültürel çalışmalar
Bölüm Research Articles
Yazarlar

Serhat Uyurkulak 0000-0002-7717-5402

Yayımlanma Tarihi 10 Mayıs 2023
Gönderilme Tarihi 21 Mart 2023
Yayımlandığı Sayı Yıl 2023 Cilt: 3 Sayı: 1

Kaynak Göster

MLA Uyurkulak, Serhat. “Postmodernity and Authenticity As an Ethical Ideal”. IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, c. 3, sy. 1, 2023, ss. 44-57.

IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies is published by The English Language and Literature Research Association of Türkiye (IDEA).