The sovereignty of taste:
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Main Author: Hans, James S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana University of Illinois Press c2002
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
1 - To Thine Own Self Be True -- - 2 - The Production of the Gods -- - 3 - The Principle of Taste -- - 4 - The Frenzy of Regret -- - 5 - Demonic Possession -- - 6 - The City of Demons
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (189 p.)
ISBN:0252027124
0252093283
9780252027123
9780252093289

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