Authenticity in culture, self, and society
By: by Phillip Vannini and Patrick Williams.
Contributors: Williams, J. Patrick, 1970-
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780754675167
Subjects: Culture; Cultural awareness; Authenticity (Philosophy); Group identity; Consumption (Economics) -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Authenticity without a true self / Alessandro Ferrara; title: Self-authenticity as master motive / Andrew J. Weigert; title: The importance of insincerity and inauthenticity for self and society : why honesty is not the best policy / Dennis Waskul; title: Ideology and practice in punk subculture / Philip Lewin and J. Patrick Williams; title: Authenticity : perspectives and experiences / Alexis T. Franzese; title: Authenticity as motivation and aesthetic experience / Phillip Vannini and Sarah Burgess; title: The everyday work and auspices of authenticity / Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein; title: We wear the mask : subordinated masculinity and the persona trap / Michael Schwalbe; title: Pop music as a resource for assembling an authentic self : a phenomenological-existential perspective / Joseph A. Kotarba; title: Consuming authenticity : a paradoxical dynamic in contemporary capitalism / Jörn Lamla; title: Saying what we mean, meaning what we say : authentic dialogue in aboriginal communities / Joshua Guilar and Lynn Charman; title: Performing authentic selfhood in an intentional community / Daphne Holden and Doug Schrock; title: Embodying ideologies in tourism : a commemorative visitor book in Israel as a site of authenticity / Chaim Noy; title: Emotional performances as dramas of authenticity / E. Doyle McCarthy; title: Alternative histories of 9/11 : the cultural conditions underlying conspiracy theories / Gary J. Krug.