Front Cover -- Reflective Authenticity -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Authenticity and validity -- The caravan at the ford -- Autonomy and authenticity -- The universalism of authenticity -- Authenticity and intersubjectivity -- 2 Postmetaphysical phronesis -- The relevance of phronesis: consonances and dissonances -- Phronesis revisited -- A non-rationalistic rationality -- 3 From Kant to Kant: a normativity without principles -- The question and the answer -- The normativity without principles of the judgment of taste -- Oriented reflective judgment -- 4 Reflective authenticity and exemplary universalism -- Authenticity as a normative category -- Models of authentic subjectivity -- Exemplary universalism: Simmel's lesson -- 5 Post-modern eudaimonia: dimensions of an authentic identity -- The case for a postmetaphysical notion of eudaimonia -- Individual identity and self-fulfillment -- Dimensions of the authenticity of an individual identity -- Concluding remarks -- 6 The fulfillment of collective identities -- The nature of collective identities -- Coherence -- Vitality -- Depth -- Maturity -- Concluding remarks -- 7 Authenticity, the text and the work of art -- The "author's intention" approach -- Interpretation as "fusion of horizons" -- Interpretation as "making the most" of a text -- The text as a symbolic identity -- Interpretation as judgment on the fulfillment of a symbolic identity -- The identity of the work of art -- Concluding remarks -- 8 Rethinking the project of modernity -- Authenticity and the project of modernity -- Radical reflexivity: metaphysical and postmetaphysical -- "Here we stand. We can do no other" -- Notes -- References -- Index.