Claviez, Thomas (November 2015). A Critique of Authenticity and Recognition (Unpublished). In: Authenticity and Cultural Translation in the Global City and Community. Universität Lausanne. 12.-14.11.2015.
While forms of ethics based upon authenticity and recognition are holding sway in contemporary philosophical debates (Ferrara, Honneth, Fraser, etc.), many of the implications of both processes – conceptual, moral, political – are still insufficiently reflected upon. The talk will offer a “critique” (in the Kantian sense) of both, based upon an analysis of the “semiotics” of authenticity and the resulting perpetuation of a regime of authority of experts, as well as commenting upon the striking absence of the realm of literature and the arts from this debate, except in some references to a rather abstract notion of Aesthetics. It will also critically revaluate the concept of agency implicit in an ethics of authenticity and recognition.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures > Literary Theory |
UniBE Contributor: |
Claviez, Thomas |
Subjects: |
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 820 English & Old English literatures 400 Language > 420 English & Old English languages 100 Philosophy > 170 Ethics 100 Philosophy > 190 Modern western philosophy 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Thomas Claviez |
Date Deposited: |
09 Dec 2015 08:10 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:50 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/73824 |