Publication: What is the Point of Being Your True Self? A Genealogy of Essentialist Authenticity
What is the Point of Being Your True Self? A Genealogy of Essentialist Authenticity
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Leuenberger, M. (2021). What is the Point of Being Your True Self? A Genealogy of Essentialist Authenticity. Philosophy, 96(3), 409–431. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031819121000012
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This paper presents a functional genealogy of essentialist authenticity. The essentialist account maintains that authenticity is the result of discovering and realizing one's ‘true self’. The genealogy shows that essentialist authenticity can serve the function of supporting continuity in one's individual characteristics. A genealogy of essentialist authenticity is not only methodologically interesting as the first functional genealogy of a contingent concept. It can also deepen the functional understanding of authenticity used in neu
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- Leuenberger, Muriel
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Leuenberger, M. (2021). What is the Point of Being Your True Self? A Genealogy of Essentialist Authenticity. Philosophy, 96(3), 409–431. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031819121000012
