An Ethics of Authenticity Literature as More Than Augmentation

Date of Award

2004

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Flakne, April

Keywords

Existentialism, Authenticity, Ethics, Philosophy

Area of Concentration

Philosophy

Abstract

This thesis is a project in two parts. The first part is the discursive portion in which I put forth my argument. The gist of the argument is this: that when certain existential issues are being discussed (such as authenticity, anxiety, nausea, absurdity, etc.) the only appropriate way to treat them is to create a tag team between the philosophical treatise (a direct method of communication) and the fictional piece (an indirect method of communication). This type of tag team is necessary because any presentation of a given existential issue must be capable of appealing both to a person's rational aspect (this is the job of the philosophical treatise) as well as to his or her inner pathos (this is the job of the existentialist fictional piece). My argument in the thesis stresses the fact that the only way this double appeal can be made is by linking the discursive philosophical treatise with the existentialist novel. Thus in order to appeal to the subjective individual as a whole, my thesis itself must take the double approach that I advocate throughout the discursive argument. The second portion of the thesis is the novella, Walking Alone, in which I attempt to put my argument into practice.

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