TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hans,James S.
TI  - The sovereignty of taste /James S. Hans
SN  - 9780252093289
AV  - BD450 .S684 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Philosophical anthropology
KW  - Taste
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; To Thine Own Self Be True --; The Production of the Gods --; The Principle of Taste --; The Frenzy of Regret --; Demonic Possession --; The City of Demons; 2; b
N2  - "Challenging prevailing trends toward aesthetic neutrality, James S. Hans argues that there is such a thing as good and bad taste, that taste is something one is born with, and that it is firmly rooted in the mechanics of biology."; "Taste is everything, Hans says, for it produces the primary values that guide our lives. Taste is the fundamental organizing mechanism of human bodies, a lifelong effort to fit one's own rhythms and patterns of the natural world and the larger community. It is an aesthetic sorting process by which one determines what belongs in - a conversation, a curriculum, a committee, a piece of art, a meal, a logical argument - and what should be left out. On the one hand, taste is the source of beauty, justice, and a sense of the good. On the other hand, as an arbiter of the laws of fair and free play, taste enters into more ominous and destructive patterns - but patterns nonetheless - of resentment and violence."--Jacket
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