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Published: 18 May 2021
... noncruelty nonviolence Opler Morris E Shiva Day Sophie freedom secularism sex work transcendence asceticism authenticity eroticism ethics gender One hot day in 2011 a man from OSACS (Odisha State AIDS Control Society) landed in Bhadrak to conduct a meeting with hijras in which he posed...
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Theories of Community: Williams, Heidegger, and Others
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J. Hillis Miller
Published: 02 December 2014
... neighbor. For Martin Heidegger, in Being and Time and elsewhere, Mitsein, or “being together,” is a primordial feature of Dasein or human “being there.” Nevertheless, for Heidegger, authenticity means taking possession, in solitude, of one’s own Dasein, rather than living in submission...
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The Electric Touch Machine Miracle Scam: Body, Technology, and the (Dis)authentication of the Pentecostal Supernatural
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Marleen de Witte
Published: 14 November 2012
... of media technology: the problem of authenticity. Through its bodily and technological mediations, Pentecostalism seeks to produce in people an experience of divine touch, while at the same time needing to authenticate such experiences as immediate and ‘real.’ The author examines some key techniques...
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Published: 01 October 2012
...The goal of this conclusion is to contrast the notion of destruction with the notion of worlding in order to show that there is a fundamental “richness” and “vitality” in factical life, to use Heidegger's own words, that must be countenanced together with—and not, even in authenticity, separated...
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“We Are Experiments” Nietzsche on Morality and Authenticity
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Keith Ansell-Pearson
Published: 15 October 2014
... involves for modern-day free spirits the experimental search for an authentic mode of existence. My focus is on Dawn from 1881. As a general point of inspiration I have adopted Pierre Hadot’s insight into the therapeutic ambitions of ancient philosophy which was, he claims, intended...
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We Are Family: Ethnic Food Marketing and the Consumption of Authenticity in Italian-Themed Chain Restaurants
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Fabio Parasecoli
Published: 01 April 2014
... of Italian American life. In the chain restaurants the chapter analyzes authenticity is a “product”—a company strategy carefully crafted with the methodology of postmodern pastiche. These establishments refer to traditions from Italy, its past, and the nostalgia it often elicits to promote a recognizable...
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The life not ours to live
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Anthony Curtis Adler
Published: 01 July 2016
... one life to live not only calls into question the opposition of authenticity and inauthenticity that structures Heidegger’s analytic of Dasein but indeed undermines a presupposition that remains latent even in many deconstructive and poststructuralist accounts of television, and also in every attempt...
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Published: 01 November 2016
... Fritz Jaspers Karl Nietzsche Friedrich Sartre Jean Paul Levinas Emmanuel Whitehead Alfred North Descartes René Pascal Blaise Ibsen Henrik Paul Saint Dilthey Wilhelm Scheler Max Aristotle Jesus Kant Immanuel Barth Karl Plato Marck Siegfried Ruyer Raymond authenticity being-in-the-world...
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“Peasants” Against Industrialization: Images of the Peasantry and Urban Activists’ Representations of the Rural
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Sarasij Majumder
Published: 20 November 2018
...This chapter shows how urban activists seek to construct an authentic peasant voice in order to make connections with a transnational civil society, which has its own agendas, views, and implicit or explicit interests. The construction of an “authentic voice” requires erasing differences within...
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Unknown Publics
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Susan Zieger
Published: 05 June 2018
... reproduction and circulation ironically still creates the aura of mass live events; and finally, how the media consumer’s dilemma of establishing authenticity has only become more aggravated in an era of self-branding on social media. Collins Wilkie The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas Dumas Alexandre The Count...
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Again and Again
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Gordon C. F. Bearn
Published: 01 May 2013
..., including representation. When we move beyond representation, we also move beyond both authenticity and inauthenticity. The distinction between performing an action and an actual performance gives rise to a number of more or less familiar distinctions. An action is performed within the plane...
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Integrity to Dignity
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Drucilla Cornell and Nick Friedman
Published: 01 February 2016
...In chapter five, we examine how in his masterful work, Justice for Hedgehogs , Dworkin develops a concept of integrity now rooted his two principles of dignity. accountability versus authenticity authenticity versus accountability Kant Immanuel Dworkin Ronald compatibilism...
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The celebrity and the nobody
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Anthony Curtis Adler
Published: 01 July 2016
...This chapter turns to the question of the who of televisionary Dasein. Just as life with television is a double life, having always already split, the who to whom this life belongs is also disarticulated in such a way that authentic resoluteness is no longer...