In Search for Authenticity. Review of the Book: Dean MacCannell's Book. The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. Moscow, 2023

Authors

  • Wang Lei Jilin Vocational College of Science and Technology
  • Pan Yue Changchun Pedagogical Higher Special College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52575/2712-746X-2026-51-2-532-536

Keywords:

culture, tourism, experience, activity, practice, leisure, work

Abstract

The article provides a review of Dean MаcCanell's book "The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class." It is noted that methodological reliance on the provisions of structuralism and cultural anthropology has prospects while maintaining opposition to Marxist concepts of cultural and historical practice. The analysis of cultural experience, sights, and features of tourist consciousness based on the interchangeability of the spectacle and the marker of the object are of interest and remain relevant. The problem of authenticity raised in the work looks unsolvable from the perspective of today and raises the question not only about authenticity, but the very nature of cultural experience.

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Author Biographies

Wang Lei, Jilin Vocational College of Science and Technology

Lecturer
Jilin, China
E-mail: 691048437@qq.com

Pan Yue, Changchun Pedagogical Higher Special College

Lecturer
Jilin, China
E-mail: 50119553@qq.com

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2026-06-30

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Lei, W., & Yue, P. (2026). In Search for Authenticity. Review of the Book: Dean MacCannell’s Book. The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. Moscow, 2023. NOMOTHETIKA: Philosophy. Sociology. Law, 51(2), 532-536. https://doi.org/10.52575/2712-746X-2026-51-2-532-536

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