Saving Beauty
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Saving Beauty

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Saving Beauty

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About This Book

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.

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Publisher
Polity
Year
2017
ISBN
9781509515134
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. 1. The Smooth
  5. 2. The Smooth Body
  6. 3. The Aesthetics of the Smooth
  7. 4. Digital Beauty
  8. 5. The Aesthetics of Veiling
  9. 6. The Aesthetics of Injury
  10. 7. The Aesthetics of Disaster
  11. 8. The Ideal of Beauty
  12. 9. Beauty as Truth
  13. 10. The Politics of Beauty
  14. 11. Pornographic Theatre
  15. 12. Lingering on Beauty
  16. 13. Beauty as Reminiscence
  17. 14. Giving Birth in Beauty
  18. End User License Agreement