"This study focuses upon Merleau-Ponty's conception of the imaginary and intends to show how his philosophy leads to radically rethink the whole reality and, eventually, to establish an ontology whose very principle is the imaginary that Merleau-Ponty also defines as "the instit…
"Real Phonies examines the twinned phenomena of phoniness and authenticity across the second half of the twentieth century - beginning with adolescents in the 1950s like Holly Golightly and Holden Caulfield, and ending with mid-career professionals in the 1990s, like sports agen…
The artificial white man: essays on authenticity
"The Artificial White Man proves the rightness of Tom Wolfe's observation that Stanley Crouch is "the jazz virtuoso of the American essay." This time out, Crouch focuses his attention on issues surrounding the often misdirected American hunger for "authenticity." Though the essa…
Titel -- Impressum -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- Erstes Kapitel: Ahnensaal. Versuch einer historischen Einordnung -- Zweites Kapitel: Die drittletzte Generation vor dem »engeren Prager Kreis« -- Drittes Kapitel: Die beiden letzten Halbgenerationen vor der Zeit des »engeren Prager Krei…
"So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten's firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An Alaska Native and anthropologist, she spent two seasons working for a tribally owned tourism business that markets the Tlingit cultu…