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1. Life as a Spectacle: Self- Display, Reflexivity, and Artifice
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Prologue xi
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PART I. APPEARING: ON THE AESTHETIC FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL LIFE
- 1. Life as a Spectacle: Self- Display, Reflexivity, and Artifice 3
- 2. Masks and Clothes: Medial Surfaces and the Dialectic of Appearing 20
- 3. Aesthetic Mediation: A Theory of Representations 28
- 4. Figures: Social Images 34
- 5. Out of Control: The Alienated Image 41
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PART II. VANITY AND LIES: ON THE HOSTILITY TOWARD APPEARANCES
- 6. “Vanity Fair”: The Frivolity of Worldliness 57
- 7. Against the Mask: The Rise of Social Romanticism 69
- 8. Against the Spectacle: The Crusade of Romantic Anticapitalism 81
- 9. Against Aesthetic Values: Aestheticism, Aestheticization, and Staging 96
- 10. Two Baptisms and a Divorce: Homo Economicus Versus Homo Aestheticus 111
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PART III. TOWARD A SOCIAL AESTHETICS: ON THE SENSIBLE LOGIC OF SOCIETY
- 11. The Opening: Aesthetic Foundations of the Common World 131
- 12. Aisthesis: Senses and Social Sensibility 150
- 13. Social Taste and the Will to Please 166
- 14. Aesthetic Labor and Social Design: The Value of Appearances 175
- 15. Prestige and Other Magic Spells 190
- Conclusion: Social Immaterialism or the Philosophy of Andy Warhol 209
- Afterword 231
- Appendix: Illustrations Mentioned in the Text 233
- Notes 235
- Index 271
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Prologue xi
-
PART I. APPEARING: ON THE AESTHETIC FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL LIFE
- 1. Life as a Spectacle: Self- Display, Reflexivity, and Artifice 3
- 2. Masks and Clothes: Medial Surfaces and the Dialectic of Appearing 20
- 3. Aesthetic Mediation: A Theory of Representations 28
- 4. Figures: Social Images 34
- 5. Out of Control: The Alienated Image 41
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PART II. VANITY AND LIES: ON THE HOSTILITY TOWARD APPEARANCES
- 6. “Vanity Fair”: The Frivolity of Worldliness 57
- 7. Against the Mask: The Rise of Social Romanticism 69
- 8. Against the Spectacle: The Crusade of Romantic Anticapitalism 81
- 9. Against Aesthetic Values: Aestheticism, Aestheticization, and Staging 96
- 10. Two Baptisms and a Divorce: Homo Economicus Versus Homo Aestheticus 111
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PART III. TOWARD A SOCIAL AESTHETICS: ON THE SENSIBLE LOGIC OF SOCIETY
- 11. The Opening: Aesthetic Foundations of the Common World 131
- 12. Aisthesis: Senses and Social Sensibility 150
- 13. Social Taste and the Will to Please 166
- 14. Aesthetic Labor and Social Design: The Value of Appearances 175
- 15. Prestige and Other Magic Spells 190
- Conclusion: Social Immaterialism or the Philosophy of Andy Warhol 209
- Afterword 231
- Appendix: Illustrations Mentioned in the Text 233
- Notes 235
- Index 271