THE INTERNET AND AUTHENTICITY: CAN WE LOG-IN TO KIERKEGAARDIAN INDIVIDUALITY

Text topic: Philosophy of Media

Text author: Бојан Благојевић

What would Kierkegaard think of the internet? His critique of the press is surely well-known, as is his attempt to awaken authenticity in his contemporaries through his writing. Which one of these two tendencies would take presedence in his account of the internet? We will challenge Dreyfuss’ thesis that Kierkegaard would have hated the internet, arguing that the internet possesses possibilities of taking on what Dreyfuss calls “risky responsibility and obligations”, at least in as much as it is possible to take them on outside the internet. Finally, we will deploy a critique of that conception of cyber-obligations, which will at the same time be a critique of Kierkegaard’s conception of authenticity