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050	0	4	_aB105 _b.S635 2020
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aCarnevali, Barbara, _e1
245	1	0	_aSocial appearances : _ba philosophy of display and prestige / _cBarbara Carnevali ; translated by Zakiya Hanafi.
260			_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c(c)2020.
300			_a1 online resource (xviii, 278 pages)
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aColumbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
500			_aTranslation from the Italian of : Le apparenze sociali.
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520	0		_aPhilosophers have long distinguished between appearance and reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface and a more profound truth is deeply rooted in Western culture. At a time of obsession with self-representation, when politics is enmeshed with spectacle and social and economic forces are intensely aestheticized, philosophy remains moored in traditional dichotomies: being versus appearing, interiority versus exteriority, authenticity versus alienation. Might there be more to appearance than meets the eye 'In this strikingly original book, Barbara Carnevali offers a philosophical examination of the roles that appearances play in social life. While Western metaphysics and morals have predominantly disdained appearances and expelled them from their domain, Carnevali invites us to look at society, ancient to contemporary, as an aesthetic phenomenon. The ways in which we appear in public and the impressions we make in terms of images, sounds, smells, and sensations are discerned by other people's senses and assessed according to their taste; this helps shape our ways of being and the world around us. Carnevali shows that an understanding of appearances is necessary to grasp the dynamics of interaction, recognition, and power in which we live' and to avoid being dominated by them. Anchored in philosophy and traversing sociology, art history, literature, and popular culture, Social Appearances develops new theoretical and conceptual tools for today's most urgent critical tasks.
505	0	0	_aIntro -- _tTable of Contents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tPrologue -- _tPart I. Appearing: On the Aesthetic Foundations of Social Life -- _t1. Life as a Spectacle: Self-Display, Reflexivity, and Artifice -- _t2. Masks and Clothes: Medial Surfaces and the Dialectic of Appearing -- _t3. Aesthetic Mediation: A Theory of Representations -- _t4. Figures: Social Images -- _t5. Out of Control: The Alienated Image -- _tPart II. Vanity and Lies: On the Hostility Toward Appearances -- _t6. "Vanity Fair": The Frivolity of Worldliness -- _t7. Against the Mask: The Rise of Social Romanticism
505	0	0	_a8. Against the Spectacle: The Crusade of Romantic Anticapitalism -- _t9. Against Aesthetic Values: Aestheticism, Aestheticization, and Staging -- _t10. Two Baptisms and a Divorce: Homo Economicus Versus Homo Aestheticus -- _tPart III. Toward a Social Aesthetics: On the Sensible Logic of Society -- _t11. The Opening: Aesthetic Foundations of the Common World -- _t12. Aisthesis: Senses and Social Sensibility -- _t13. Social Taste and the Will to Please -- _t14. Aesthetic Labor and Social Design: The Value of Appearances -- _t15. Prestige and Other Magic Spells
505	0	0	_aConclusion: Social Immaterialism or the Philosophy of Andy Warhol -- _tAfterword -- _tAppendix: Illustrations Mentioned in the Text -- _tNotes -- _tIndex
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650		0	_aAppearance (Philosophy)
650		0	_aPrestige.
650		0	_aAesthetics.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aRecorded Books, Inc.
700	1		_aHanafi, Zakiya, _d1959- _etrl
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2296518&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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