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Saving Beauty - Byung-Chul Han

Saving Beauty

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Buch | Hardcover
120 Seiten
2017
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-1509-7 (ISBN)
CHF 62,85 inkl. MwSt
Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty.

In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han reinvigorates aesthetic theory for our digital age. He interrogates our preoccupation with all things slick and smooth, from Jeff Koon's sculptures and the iPhone to Brazilian waxing. Reaching far deeper than our superficial reactions to viral videos and memes, Han reclaims beauty, showing how it manifests itself as truth, temptation and even disaster.

This wide-ranging and profound exploration of beauty, encompassing ethical and political considerations as well as aesthetic, will appeal to all those interested in cultural and aesthetic theory, philosophy and digital media.

Byung-Chul Han is a Korean-born Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies who teaches at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. He is the author of more than 20 books including The Scent of Time, The Transparency Society and The Burnout Society.

1. The Smooth
2. The Smooth Body
3. The Aesthetics of the Smooth
4. Digital Beauty
5. The Aesthetics of Veiling
6. The Aesthetics of Injury
7. The Aesthetics of Disaster
8. The Ideal of Beauty
9. Beauty as Truth
10. The Politics of Beauty
11. Pornographic Theatre
12. Lingering on Beauty
13. Beauty as Reminiscence
14. Giving Birth in Beauty
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Erscheinungsdatum
Übersetzer Daniel Steuer
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 213 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-5095-1509-7 / 1509515097
ISBN-13 978-1-5095-1509-7 / 9781509515097
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