Social appearances: a philosophy of display and prestige
In this strikingly original book, Barbara Carnevali offers a philosophical examination of the roles that appearances play in social life. While Western metaphysics and morals have predominantly disdained appearances and expelled them from their domain, Carnevali invites us to look at society, ancien...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English Italian |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| Further subjects: | B
Appearance (Philosophy)
B Aesthetics B Electronic books B Prestige |
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| Summary: | In this strikingly original book, Barbara Carnevali offers a philosophical examination of the roles that appearances play in social life. While Western metaphysics and morals have predominantly disdained appearances and expelled them from their domain, Carnevali invites us to look at society, ancient to contemporary, as an aesthetic phenomenon. 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. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (301 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-54698-0 |
