On Scandal - Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Art

Informationen zum Autor Ari Adut is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds postgraduate degrees from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the University of Chicago, where he has also taught. His research has received support from the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. Zusammenfassung On Scandal is the first general and comprehensive analysis of a ubiquitous moral phenomenon. Taking up wide-ranging cases! Ari Adut shows when wrong-doings generate scandals and when they do not. He also applies the lens of scandal to address many puzzles and questions about public life! politics! art! and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The disruptive publicity of transgression; 2. The fall of Oscar Wilde; 3. The American presidency, imperial and imperiled; 4. Investigating corruption in France; 5. Sex and the American public sphere; 6. Provocation in art; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Ari Adut, Ari (University of Texas Adut
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.07.2009
• EAN: 9780521720403
• ISBN: 978-0-521-72040-3
• No. of pages: 374
• Series: Structural Analysis in the Soc; Structural Analysis in the Soc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)