From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity

1. Introduction
Gerhard Thonhauser

Part I. Interpreting the Anyone

2. Who is the Self of Everyday Existence?
Mark A. Wrathall

3.
Das Man and Everydayness: A New Interpretation
Charlotte Knowles

4. Heidegger’s Underdeveloped Conception of theUndistinguishedness (Indifferenz) of Everyday Human Existence
Jo-Jo Koo

5. Unobtrusive Governance: Heidegger and Foucault on theSources of Social Normativity
Andreas Beinsteiner

Part II. Contextualizing the Anyone

6. The Historicality of das Man: Foucault on Docility and Optimality
Kevin Thompson

7. The Danger of Being Ridden by a Type: Everydayness and Authenticity in Context– Reading Heidegger with Hegel and Diderot
Dieter Thomä

8. Authenticity and Plurality: From Heidegger’s “Anyone” to Arendt’s “Common Sense” and Back Again
Ileana Borţun

9. Ambivalence of Power: Heidegger’s das Man and Arendt’s Acting in Concert

Katrin Meyer

10. A Groundless Place to Build: The Ambivalence of Production as aChance of Action Between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt
Lucilla Guidi

Part III. Towards Social Authenticity

11. How to Change das Man?
Christian Schmidt

12. Social Authenticity: Towards a Heideggerian Analysis of Social Change
Martin Weichold

13. Transforming the World: A Butlerian Reading of Heidegger on Social Change?
Gerhard Thonhauser

14. Authentic Role Play: A Political Solution to an Existential Paradox
Hans Bernhard Schmid

Nyckelord: Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Sociological Theory, Phenomenology, Sociology of Culture