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Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey C. Alexander! Yale University! USADominik Bartma?ski! Yale University! USAGottfried Boehm! Basel University! SwitzerlandHans Belting! Northwestern University! USAFuyuki Kurasawa! York University! CanadaWendy Bowler! LaTrobe University! AustraliaWerner Binder! Masaryk University! Czech RepublicPhilip Smith! Yale University! USAIan Woodward! Griffith University! AustraliaDavid Ellison! Griffith University! AustraliaDaniel uber! University of Lucerne! SwitzerlandSlobodan Karamani?! Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities! SloveniaValentin Rauer! Goethe University Frankfurt Main! GermanyBernhard Giesen! Universität Konstanz! Germany Julia Sonnevend! Columbia University! USAPiotr Sztompka! Jagiellonian University! Poland Klappentext A collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn'! sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its horizons. Zusammenfassung A collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn'! sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its horizons. Inhaltsverzeichnis Materiality and Meaning in Social Life: Toward an Iconic Turn in Cultural Sociology; D.Bartmanski & J.Alexander PART I Representation! Presentation! Presence: Tracing the Homo Pictor; G.Boehm Iconic Power and Performance: the Role of the Critic; J.Alexander PART II Inconspicuous Revolutions of 1989. Culture and Contingency in The Making of Political Icons; D.Bartmanski The Making of Humanitarian Visual Icons. On the 1921-1923 Russian Famine as Foundational Event; F.Kurasawa Seeing Tragedy in the News Images of September 11; W.Bowler The Emergence of Iconic Depth. Secular Icons in a Comparative Perspective; W.Binder PART III Shifting Extremism: On the Political Iconology in Post-socialist Serbia; D.suber & S.Karamanic The Visualization of Uncertainty: HIV Statistics in Public Media; V.Rauer How To Make an Iconic Commodity: The Case of Penfolds' Grange Wine; I.Woodward & D.Ellison Becoming Iconic. The Cases of Woodstock and Bayreuth; P.Smith PART IV Body and Image; H.Belting Iconic Difference and Seduction; B.Giesen Iconic Rituals. Towards a Social Theory of Encountering Images; J.Sonnevend Visible Meanings; P.Sztompka Afterword; B.Giesen ...
