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Social appearances : a philosophy of display and prestige /
Philosophers have long distinguished between appearance and reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface and a more profound truth is deeply rooted in Western culture. At a time of obsession with self-representation, when politics is enmeshed with spectacle and social and econo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Part I. Appearing: On the Aesthetic Foundations of Social Life
- 1. Life as a Spectacle: Self-Display, Reflexivity, and Artifice
- 2. Masks and Clothes: Medial Surfaces and the Dialectic of Appearing
- 3. Aesthetic Mediation: A Theory of Representations
- 4. Figures: Social Images
- 5. Out of Control: The Alienated Image
- Part II. Vanity and Lies: On the Hostility Toward Appearances
- 6. "Vanity Fair": The Frivolity of Worldliness
- 7. Against the Mask: The Rise of Social Romanticism
- 8. Against the Spectacle: The Crusade of Romantic Anticapitalism
- 9. Against Aesthetic Values: Aestheticism, Aestheticization, and Staging
- 10. Two Baptisms and a Divorce: Homo Economicus Versus Homo Aestheticus
- Part III. Toward a Social Aesthetics: On the Sensible Logic of Society
- 11. The Opening: Aesthetic Foundations of the Common World
- 12. Aisthesis: Senses and Social Sensibility
- 13. Social Taste and the Will to Please
- 14. Aesthetic Labor and Social Design: The Value of Appearances
- 15. Prestige and Other Magic Spells
- Conclusion: Social Immaterialism or the Philosophy of Andy Warhol
- Afterword
- Appendix: Illustrations Mentioned in the Text
- Notes
- Index