Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but rather have to do with the rules by which the self allows or disallows its own experience.

and Victor A. The Thanatos Syndrome. A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy.

Percy is known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans Louisiana the first of which The Moviegoer won the U. S. He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age.