Etiquette
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Etiquette

Reflections on Contemporary Comportment

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Reflections on Contemporary Comportment

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Etiquette, the field of multifarious prescriptions governing comportment in life's interactions, has generally been neglected by philosophers, who may be inclined to dismiss it as trivial, most specifically in contrast to ethics. Philosophy tends to grant absolute privilege to ethics over etiquette, placing the former alongside all of the traditional values favored by metaphysics (order, truth, rationality, mind, masculinity, depth, reality), while consigning the latter to metaphysics' familiar, divisive list of hazards and rejects (arbitrariness, mere opinion, irrationality, the body, femininity, surface, appearance). Addressing a broad range of subjects, from sexuality, clothes, and cell phones to hip-hop culture, bodybuilding, and imperialism, the contributors to Etiquette challenge these traditional values—not in order to favor etiquette over ethics, but to explore the various ways in which practice subtends theory, in which manners are morals, and in which ethics, the practice of living a good life, has always depended upon the graceful relations for which etiquette provides the armature.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780791480915
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Essays in Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Etiquette
  2. Contents
  3. INTRODUCTION: On Being Becoming
  4. 1. Aristotle’s Aesthetiquette
  5. 2. The Art of the Dis: Hip-Hop’s Battle Royale
  6. 3. Gay Etiquette: A Brief Consideration
  7. 4. The Breathing Breach of Etiquette
  8. 5. The Etiquette of Adoption
  9. 6. Impolitics: Toward A Resistant Comportment
  10. 7. Coldness and Civility
  11. 8. Eating Dogs and Women: Abject Rules of Etiquette in 301/302
  12. 9. The Taciturn Tongue: On Silence
  13. 10. Handy Etiquette
  14. 11. Murder So Bland: The Implosion of Disetiquette
  15. 12. Branded from the Start: The Paradox of (the) American(Novel of ) Manners
  16. 13. “Make Yourself Useful!”
  17. 14. The American Guest
  18. 15. A Place Where the Soul Can Rest
  19. 16. Slurping Soda,Twirling Spaghetti: Etiquette, Fascism, and Pleasure
  20. 17. Make It Look Easy: Thoughts on Social Grace
  21. 18. Etiquette and Missile Defense
  22. 19. Odysseus Lies
  23. 20. Take Clothes, For Example
  24. Contributors
  25. Index