In search of authenticity :

Golomb, Jacob.

In search of authenticity : from Kierkegaard to Camus / Jacob Golomb - London ; New York : Routledge, 1995. - 219 pages ; 22 cm. - Problems of modern European thought .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-211) and index.

Authenticity, sincerity and honesty; authenticity, literature and irony; Kierkegaard's ironic ladder to authentic faith; Nietzsche's pathos of authenticity; Heidegger's ontology of authenticity; Sartre - from phenomenological ontology to psychoanalysis and politics; Camus's return to authentic human morality. Conclusion - authenticity and ethics.

Great philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre have clearly been preoccupied by the possibility of authenticity. In this study, Jacob Golomb looks closely at the literature and writings of these philosophers in his analysis of their ethics.

9780415119474 0415119464(hbk) 0415119472 (pbk.)

94043130

B105.A8 / G65 1995

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