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    If love were fundamentally a flight from mortality, it would constitute what Heidegger calls inauthenticity, yet many philosophical traditions treat love as among the most authentic of human experiences.

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    Flight from(as describing how love might relate to mortality)
    Trying to escape or avoid confronting something uncomfortable or painful.
    Heidegger(as the philosopher who transformed hermeneutics)
    Martin Heidegger was a 20th-century German philosopher who fundamentally changed how we think about understanding and existence; he's famous for asking 'what does it mean to be?'
    Mortality(as what the statement suggests people might flee from through love)
    The fact that all humans are going to die someday; our limited time on Earth.
    authenticity(Central concept under analysis; the passage examines whether contagion theory adequately explains why authenticity matters in the arts.)
    The property of an artwork being a genuine original, as opposed to a copy or forgery, where that status is tied to the work's causal or historical connection to its creator.

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    inauthenticity(existentialist ethics)
    A mode of existence in which one drifts in and out of roles without genuine commitment, or allows one's life-story to be dictated by the world rather than authored by oneself

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