So what differentiates Heid's authentic individual from the flanuer & how to tell a normie?: The authentic individual takes up a social role, knowing full well he could do otherwise, & is true to himself in that the self is not a demarcated ego.
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At times, he strives for things outside the bounds of normalcy, but the impetus for doing so is not hedonistic nor based on arbitrary subjective whims.
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This character is more akin to the tragic hero who takes up an impossible/monumental task than the artist who eats turds to break social convention. This is why the social-moral components of Heidy are hard to understand without a more old-school Greco-Roman aesthetic sensibility
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Replying to @Bobsmithumz @doseofpercocets
Ahhh I see, so this comportment towards the self entails the Greek notions of virtue, aesthetic action, etc. Not just dandyism, but how does heid guarantee that the self won't just slip into relativism and dandyism?
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Replying to @giantgio @doseofpercocets
I think determining whether or not one succumbs to dandyism rather than an authentic transfiguration of character is not so easily done from the outside. There are probably conspicuous signs that would indicate inauthenticity:e.g. general egoism, utilitarian/means-to-end thinking
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A litmus test for "genuine" authenticity is this [internal (bad word tho)] feeling of alienness or uncanniness. It's this extra-ordinary sensation of being tugged out of the isolated ego & the utilitarian thinking inculcated therein
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Replying to @giantgio @doseofpercocets
Ye! but he also critiqued eastern mysticism from a stylistic standpoint in that they over-emphasize the centrality of self. He took the charge of philosophical anthropology seriously & thats why his later works decenter the human to an extent & focus on "things" & their relations
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Basically without the constant reminder of radical contextualization, Heid thought that the bifurcated utilitarian frame of mind would creep back into any project that easily lends itself to subjectivist interpretation.
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You should read Philosophy as Metanoetics - Hajime Tanabe addresses the import of stylistic articulation in accounting for "context" in a way that grants due diligence to both subject & object w/out one side collapsing fully into the other.
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Hmm interesting
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