Politics Of Authenticity Pa
, by Berman,MarshallNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781844674404 | 1844674401
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/2/2009
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.'