Reign of Appearances - The Misery and Splendor of the Public Sphere

Informationen zum Autor Ari Adut is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is also a former member of Institute for Advanced Study. He is the author of On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Art (Cambridge, 2008). Adut's research has been featured in the New York Times and by the BBC, and it has received support from the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. Klappentext The public sphere can undermine liberal democracy, law, and morality. But it also liberates us from the bondages of private life and fosters a vital aesthetic experience. Zusammenfassung The book proposes a radically unconventional account of the public sphere that will appeal to scholars! intellectuals! and the educated public. It challenges common wisdom by arguing that the public sphere can undermine liberal democracy! law! and morality. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A critique; 2. A realistic perspective; 3. Publicity; 4. Politics in public; 5. Content regulation; 6. Visibility in society; 7. Law and morality in the public sphere; 8. A defense of spectatorship; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ari Adut, Ari (University of Texas Adut, Adut Ari
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781107180932
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18093-2
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Sociology, History of Ideas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics