Re:How Facebook is Killing Your Authenticity
by _delirium on Monday March 07, 2011 @03:11AM
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> Even the idea of "authenticity" is given to us, a (rather lame) invention of the 19th Century Romantics, Freud, and the 1960s.
They popularized a version (and Sartre's idea of "bad faith" is probably the proximal source of modern popularity), but you can find it in basically the entire individualist tradition of Western philosophy. Rousseau spends a lot of time discussing it, for example; in addition to discussing the political effects of social relations, he worries about whether societies produce conformity and reduce people's expression of their genuine personality/autonomy (see e.g. his writing on amour-propre, and his obsession with taking [and writing about] solitary walks).
They popularized a version (and Sartre's idea of "bad faith" is probably the proximal source of modern popularity), but you can find it in basically the entire individualist tradition of Western philosophy. Rousseau spends a lot of time discussing it, for example; in addition to discussing the political effects of social relations, he worries about whether societies produce conformity and reduce people's expression of their genuine personality/autonomy (see e.g. his writing on amour-propre, and his obsession with taking [and writing about] solitary walks).