In the last three decades, authors like Taylor (1989, 1991, 1995, 2007), Ferrara (1993; 1998), Jacob Golomb (1995), Guignon (2004, 2008) and Varga (2011a) have attempted to reconstruct authenticity by maintaining that the justified criticism of self-indulgent forms of the idea does not justify the total condemnation of the idea itself (see Taylor 1991: 56). Instead of abandoning the notion of authenticity, they attempt to reconstruct it in a manner that leads neither to aestheticism nor to atomistic self-indulgence.