| Title | When Your Authenticity Is an Act, Something’s Gone Wrong |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Joseph E. Davis (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.774a7e8b |
| Landing page | https://www.mediastudies.press/pub/davis-authenticity/ |
| Publisher | mediastudies.press |
| Published on | 2021-07-15 |
| Short abstract | ‘TODAY THERE IS little premium placed on being authentic,’ writes the American philosopher Gordon Marino in his moving meditation The Existentialist’s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age (2018). |
| Long abstract | ‘TODAY THERE IS little premium placed on being authentic,’ writes the American philosopher Gordon Marino in his moving meditation The Existentialist’s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age (2018). In our world of ‘selfies, social media branding, and managing your profile on LinkedIn and Facebook … [i]t is not who you are but who you seem to be!’ In interviews for my own sociological book on everyday suffering and our troubled quest for self-mastery, I too found little premium placed on ‘being authentic’. And yet, organisational consultants inform us, in the pages of the Harvard Business Review, that ‘the term “authenticity” has become a buzzword among organisational leaders’. In fact, authenticity is ‘now ubiquitous in business, on personal blogs and even in style magazines’, according to another writer. ‘Everyone wants to be authentic.’ |