Critique of Authenticity

Thomas Claviez holds the chair for Literary Theory at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He has published widely on issues of community, recognition, literary theory and moral philosophy. He is the author of several books and is currently working on a monograph with the title The Metonymic Community: Towards a Poetics of Contingency. Kornelia Imesch is Professor for Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She focuses her research on national, international and non-Western art and architecture; the art system; the relationship between art, architecture, and branding; art and film; and art and gender.

list of figures and tables 

introduction 

Thomas Claviez, Kornelia Imesch, Britta Sweers

part 1. overture: authenticity at stake – a debate 

chapter 1 the dual paradox of authenticity in the 21st century 

Alessandro Ferrara

chapter 2 the dual paradox of authenticity in the 21st century: a response to alessandro ferrara

Thomas Claviez

chapter 3 authenticity and deconstruction: a rejoinder 

Alessandro Ferrara

part 2. authenticity: theoretical and philosophical reflections 

chapter 4 a critique of authenticity and recognition 

Thomas Claviez

chapter 5 authentic power and care as repetition 

Timothy Campbell

chapter 6 “the alienation of the common”: a look into the ‘authentic origin’ of community 

Viola Marchi

chapter 7 authentic surfaces: toward a concept of transformational authenticity 

Ryan Kopaitich 

part 3. music and authenticity 

chapter 8 hegel and sibelius on the starship enterprise: beyond the frontiers of musical authenticity

Tina K. Ramnarine

chapter 9 how we got into ‘authenticity’ and ‘originality’ thinking, and why we should find a way out of it 

Marcello Sorce Keller

chapter 10 ontology of music and authenticity – a pragmatic approach 

Marcello Ruta

chapter 11 multiple authenticities of folk songs 

Lea Hagmann and Franz Andres Morrissey

part 4. authenticity in culture and society: case studies 

chapter 12 transformative communities as alternative forms of life? conceptual reflections and empirical findings (co-housing in switzerland) 

Dietmar J. Wetzel

chapter 13 authenticity required: writing the visual history of aids in current art exhibitions

Sophie Junge

chapter 14 authenticity as branding tool: generic architecture versus critical regionalism in the united arab emirates and in qatar 

Kornelia Imesch

acknowledgments

contributors 

works cited

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