Dialectic of Taste - On Rise Fall of Tuscanization Other Crises in Aesthetic Economy

Informationen zum Autor David Michalski is the Social and Cultural Studies Librarian at the University of California, Davis, USA. Klappentext The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for aesthetics, seen in artisan markets, was born out of the ashes of McDonaldization to become a potent force today, capable of both regulating social identity and sparking social change. Zusammenfassung The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for aesthetics! seen in artisan markets! was born out of the ashes of McDonaldization to become a potent force today! capable of both regulating social identity and sparking social change. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: What ' 's at Stake in Taste 2. The Aesthetic Economy 3. Abstract Taste and the Crisis of Value 4. The Allegory of Tuscany 5. Conclusion

List of contents

1. Introduction: What ' 's at Stake in Taste
2. The Aesthetic Economy
3. Abstract Taste and the Crisis of Value
4. The Allegory of Tuscany
5. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: David Michalski
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781137544278
• ISBN: 978-1-137-54427-8
• No. of pages: 113
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; C, Culture, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Economic Sociology, Ethnology, Social & cultural anthropology, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Regional Studies, Social Anthropology, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Sociocultural Anthropology, Culture—Study and teaching, Social groups: religious groups & communities