… of objects, Walter Benjamin has rightly pointed out that authenticity is … authenticity becomes
intelligible in the first place. Benjamin (1973) describes how authenticity emerges as an ideal, …

… an ethical ideal of authenticity, … ethical ideal of authenticity: the ambitious ideal of a continuous
self-reflective process of ‘self-authentication’. For this purpose, the ideal of being authentic …

… In that case, any idea of an ethic based primarily on the ideal of authenticity … ideal of
authenticity. Before we turn to these critiques, it is helpful to understand how the ideal of authenticity …

… I am saying that we should see this culture as reflecting in part an ethical aspiration, the
ideal of authenticity, but one that doesn't itself license its self-centred modes. Rather, in the light …

… authenticity to be some sort of ideal, however the relationship between authenticity as an ideal
and other ideals … with the conflict between authenticity and moral or ethical ideals, which I …

… ethics senses of the word ‘authenticity’. The term ‘authentic’ in ordinary usage suggests the
idea … For the purposes of this short discussion, I will concentrate on the idea of authenticity as …

… the history of how authenticity has been theorized as an ethical or existential ideal with respect
to … what may have become of that desire called authenticity, and whether it is possible to …

… does not seem to provide much ground for an ethics. If authenticity is the ethical ideal one
must aim for, and that is indeed the key of Sartre’s ethics, it is not clear how the for-itself that …

… Modern rationality and reason undermines the worth of our highest values because “it makes
suspect the ethical ideals we employ to orient ourselves through the world,” making their “…

… Why should the concept of authenticity, any more than any … , that authenticity is not just one
arbitrary ethical ideal among … of authenticity” is that whereas in the past the ideal fostered …