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Keep It Fake : Inventing An Authentic Life - Wilson Eric G - 2015

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226 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. This book is an unread copy. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. Dust jacket is unclipped. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. We love these commands, especially in America, because they invoke what we love to believe: that there is an authentic self to which we can be true. But while we mock Tricky Dick and Slick Willie, we are inventing identities on Facebook, paying thousands for plastic surgeries, tuning into news that simply verifies our opinions. This is frontier forthrightness gone dreamy: reality bites, after all, and faith-based initiatives trump reality-based ones, and becoming disillusioned is a downer. In his new book, part memoir, part cultural analysis, Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life, Eric G. Wilson clarifies this confusion. He draws on neuroscience, psychology, sociology, philosophy, art, film, literature, and his own life to explore the possibility that there's no such thing as unwavering reality. Whether our left brains are shaping the raw data of our right into fabulous stories, or we are so saturated by society's conventions that we're always acting out prefab scripts, we can't help but be phony. But are some fakes more real than others? Are certain lies true? In lively prose-honest, provocative, erudite, witty, wide-ranging (as likely to riff on Bill Murray as to contemplate Plato)-Keep It Fake answers these questions, uncovering bracing truths about what it means to be human and helping us turn our necessary lying into artful living. Quantity Available: 3. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN/EAN: 9780374181024. Inventory No: 20050283. By: Wilson Eric G Year: 2015 Visit our website to view thousands more products like this and order online at:
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