The Politics of Authenticity

Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society

Bibliographic Data

ID10350246
AuthorsStephen P Halbrook
Year1972
Volume33
Issue1
Pages121-121
Publication date1972-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofThe politics of authenticity: Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society., Marshall Berman, 1970
VenuePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8205 • E-ISSN: 1933-1592
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/2106729
OpenAlexW2064700719
LanguageEN

In this acclaimed exploration of the search for 'authentic' individual identity, Marshall Berman explores the historical experiences and needs out of which this new radicalism arose. Focussing on eighteenth-century Paris, a time and place in which a distinctively modern form of society was just coming into its own, Berman shows how the ideal of authenticity - of a self that could organize the individual's energy and direct it toward his own happiness - articulated eighteenth-century man's deepest responses to this brave new world, and his most ardent hope for a new life in it. Exploring in particular the ideas of Montesquieu and Rousseau, Berman shows how the ideal of authenticity was radically opposed to the bourgeois, capitalistic idea of 'self-interest

Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Individualism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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