Social appearances: a philosophy of display and prestige
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 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:...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
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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LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
B Social / PHILOSOPHY B Appearance (Philosophy) B Aesthetics B Critical Theory / Movements / PHILOSOPHY B Prestige B PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics |
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| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 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 -- 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 -- 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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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource) |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-54698-0 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7312/carn18706 |
