Selfhood and Authenticity

<p><b>Explores the notion of selfhood in the wake of the post-structuralist debates.</b></p><p><b>Winner of the 2004 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction presented by the Media Ecology Association </b></p><p>Drawing upon numerous influential thinkers of the twentieth century including Heidegger Bakhtin Merleau-Ponty Sartre Goffman Schrag and Taylor Selfhood and Authenticity articulates the phenomenological constitution by which social construction is a real possibility. Anton brings phenomenology and existential philosophy to wider audiences and makes complex insights refreshingly lucid by systematically radicalizing and integrating the notions of embodiment sociality symbolicity and temporality.</p>