Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves-Fast Shipping

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Title: Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves

Author: Andrew Potter

ISBN: 9780771071065

Publisher: Emblem Editions

Published: 2011

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Number of Pages: 312

Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

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One of Canada’s hippest, smartest cultural critics takes on the West’s defining value. We live in a world increasingly dominated by the fake, the prepackaged, the artificial: fast food, scripted reality TV shows, Facebook “friends,” and fraudulent memoirs. But people everywhere are demanding the exact opposite, heralding “authenticity” as the cure for isolated individualism and shallow consumerism. Restaurants promote the authenticity of their cuisine, while condo developers promote authentic loft living and book reviewers regularly praise the authenticity of a new writer’s voice. International bestselling author Andrew Potter brilliantly unpacks our modern obsession with authenticity. In this perceptive and thought-provoking blend of pop culture, history, and philosophy, he finds that far from serving as a refuge from modern living, the search for authenticity often creates the very problems it’s meant to solve.