From Absurdity to Authenticity

A full draft of chapter 9 is now available to download. It analyses the eudaimonist arguments for the virtue of authenticity found in Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks and Sartre’s Being and Nothingness. It argues that, because these are psychoanalytic arguments aimed at diagnosing and treating the sources of anxiety and distress, they cannot establish the moral conclusion that … Continue reading From Absurdity to Authenticity