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020			_a9781844674404
082			_a302.54 BER
100			_a"Berman, Marshall"
245		0	_aPolitics of authenticity _bRadical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society
260			_aLondon
260			_bVerso
260			_c2009
300			_a325p.
365			_b9000
365			_dRS
520			_aIn this acclaimed exploration of the search for “authentic” individual identity, Marshall Berman explores the historical experiences and needs out of which this new radicalism arose. Focussing on eighteenth-century Paris, a time and place in which a distinctively modern form of society was just coming into its own, Berman shows how the ideal of authenticity—of a self that could organize the individual’s energy and direct it toward his own happiness—articulated eighteenth-century man’s deepest responses to this brave new world, and his most ardent hope for a new life in it. Exploring in particular the ideas of Montesquieu and Rousseau, Berman shows how the ideal of authenticity was radically opposed to the bourgeois, capitalistic idea of “self-interest.”
650			_aSociology
942			_cB _2ddc