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• W4321360017 abstract "On Authenticity and the Concept of the Public in Kierkegaard and Heidegger Yi-Ping Ong We live in an age dominated by the politics of authenticity. Steve Cohen, describing what he calls “the search for reality” in “American politics today,” attributes this shift to the sweeping and rapid transformation of media environment and corporate influence: Before the internet, journalists curated our facts and adhered to professional norms and ethics when presenting those facts. That has been replaced by a free market in real and made up information along with endless commentaries by mostly non-expert experts. […] [A] number of networks now provide televised news 24 hours a day. Corporations advertise on these networks, then pay to influence elections, and then pay to lobby elected officials to do their bidding. […] [T]he corporate sector increasingly seeks to define reality itself. The public reaction to that has been to seek out and respond to political candidates that offer some degree of independence and authenticity. They are looking for “people who can’t be bought”; from Mike Bloomberg to Barack Obama to Donald Trump and now to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, we have a craving for something real that we might define as the politics of authenticity (Cohen). Whatever authenticity in this context may mean, it coincides tangentially with a notion of truth. In a post-election survey conducted eight days after the 2017 US presidential election, 61.8% of voters for Donald Trump rated him as “highly authentic,” despite the fact that 68.8% of these same voters rated as “highly false” a statement from his Twitter account accusing China of having invented the concept of [End Page 872] global warming for the purposes of economic gain.1 Nor, as Cohen’s analysis suggests, is the appeal of authenticity simply the effect of a media culture besotted by celebrity profiles and the resultant demand that candidates evince “political intimacy” with constituents via spontaneous expressions of the private self. To be authentic is not just to show the self for what it truly is; rather, it connotes an active stance of being anti-establishment, anti-media and anti-norm. This concept of authenticity is based in a deep mistrust over the inauthenticity of the public sphere. Its genealogy is multistranded and, in the case of its contemporary usage in American politics, inflected by the rise of both right- and left-wing populism. Here, I aim to tease out but one strand of the modern dichotomy between the inauthenticity of the public sphere and the self it is seen to oppress. This brief yet influential chapter of intellectual history begins with a review of a novel published by Søren Kierkegaard at a moment when he intends to abandon philosophy and take up the priesthood. It ends with Martin Heidegger’s 1927 Being and Time, which, in the words of the Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgård, “describe[s] public life as the antithesis of the authentic” (804). Tracing the lines of this genealogy is not merely academic. That Heidegger does not see through Hitler but becomes a true believer in the National Socialism of the Third Reich is a recurring obsession for Knausgård, who regards himself as an uneasy inheritor of this tradition of social critique running from Kierkegaard to Heidegger and beyond – a tradition that has itself been critiqued by thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas, Theodor Adorno, and György Lukács as apolitical, reactionary, and potentially allied with fascism.2 Today, distrust of public life and discourse, coupled with a growing sense of our unreality to one another, renders the proximity between the ideals of authenticity and a politics that emerges from the wholesale condemnation of public life into a specter no longer [End Page 873] to be confined to the distant past. Hence in returning to this chapter in the history of thought, I intend not only to retell it but also to reimagine it: to recast the possibilities it affords for thinking in the present moment. Kierkegaard begins work on A Literary Review in 1845, soon after he submits the manuscript of Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the printing office of Bianco Luna (Garff 361). As his journal entry..." @default.
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• W4321360017 title "On Authenticity and the Concept of the Public in Kierkegaard and Heidegger" @default.
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