Enacting authenticity: Peter Nichols' Passion Play and Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or in dialogue

This article expands and develops current reformulations of the term ‘authenticity’ by juxtaposing Peter Nichols’s dramatic presentation of (in)authentic behavior in Passion Play, Søren Kierkegaard’s writings on authenticity, and recent studies in psychology and affective neuroscience. Re-thinking K...