The Politics of Authenticity : Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society, Paperback / softback Book

The Politics of Authenticity : Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society Paperback / softback

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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."

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