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Authenticity in Crisis: The Impossibility of Being Oneself Under the Gaze of the Other

Authenticity in Crisis: The Impossibility of Being Oneself Under the Gaze of the Other

Carlos, Antonio

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Series: The Self Under Pressure

Philosophy

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ISBN13: 9798298062435
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 13 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In a time when everything must appear genuine, even authenticity has become performance. The individual, urged to express emotional consistency, personal style, and narrative coherence, finds themselves trapped in the duty to be yourself-even when that self no longer fits. This work unfolds as a philosophical reflection on inner exposure, the normalization of sensitivity, and the exhaustion of maintaining a stable identity. Between the aesthetics of sincerity and the marketing of the self, a quiet question arises: how can one continue to exist without having to perform?

Figures such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Montaigne, Simone Weil, Foucault, Sartre, and Byung-Chul Han appear not as authorities, but as thinking presences. Authenticity is not recovered here - it is undone. And in that undoing, another form of presence may emerge - one less functional, less legible, more truthful.

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