Research Article

Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal

Volume: 3 Number: 1 May 10, 2023
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Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal

Abstract

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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References

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  2. Heidegger, Martin. Basic Writings from Being and Time to The Task of Thinking. Translated by D. F. Krell. Harper Collins, 1993.
  3. Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke University Press, 1991.
  4. Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death. Translated by W. Lowrie. Princeton University Press, 2013.
  5. Kirby, Adam. Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture. Continuum, 2009.
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  8. Nealon, Jeffrey T. Post-postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism. Stanford University Press, 2012.

Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Literary Theory, Cultural Studies

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

May 10, 2023

Submission Date

March 21, 2023

Acceptance Date

April 6, 2023

Published in Issue

Year 2023 Volume: 3 Number: 1

APA
Uyurkulak, S. (2023). Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal. IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, 3(1), 44-57. https://izlik.org/JA57JR26ZA
AMA
1.Uyurkulak S. Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal. IDEAS. 2023;3(1):44-57. https://izlik.org/JA57JR26ZA
Chicago
Uyurkulak, Serhat. 2023. “Postmodernity and Authenticity As an Ethical Ideal”. IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies 3 (1): 44-57. https://izlik.org/JA57JR26ZA.
EndNote
Uyurkulak S (May 1, 2023) Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal. IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies 3 1 44–57.
IEEE
[1]S. Uyurkulak, “Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal”, IDEAS, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 44–57, May 2023, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA57JR26ZA
ISNAD
Uyurkulak, Serhat. “Postmodernity and Authenticity As an Ethical Ideal”. IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies 3/1 (May 1, 2023): 44-57. https://izlik.org/JA57JR26ZA.
JAMA
1.Uyurkulak S. Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal. IDEAS. 2023;3:44–57.
MLA
Uyurkulak, Serhat. “Postmodernity and Authenticity As an Ethical Ideal”. IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, May 2023, pp. 44-57, https://izlik.org/JA57JR26ZA.
Vancouver
1.Serhat Uyurkulak. Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal. IDEAS [Internet]. 2023 May 1;3(1):44-57. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA57JR26ZA

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