Social Appearances - Barbara Carnevali

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Résumé :
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.

Biographie:
Barbara Carnevali is professor at the ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where she holds a chair in social aesthetics. Her books include Romantisme et reconnaissance. Figures de la conscience chez Rousseau (2012).

Zakiya Hanafi is the author of The Monster in the Machine: Magic, Medicine, and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution (2000) and affiliate assistant professor of human-centered design and engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Social Appearances is her eleventh book of philosophy in translation.

Sommaire:
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part I. Appearing: On the Aesthetic Foundations of Social Life
1. Life as a Spectacle: Self-Display, Reflexivity, and Artifice
2. Masks and Clothes: Medial Surfaces and the Dialectic of Appearing
3. Aesthetic Mediation: A Theory of Representations
4. Figures: Social Images
5. Out of Control: The Alienated Image
Part II. Vanity and Lies: On the Hostility Toward Appearances
6. ?Vanity Fair?: The Frivolity of Worldliness
7. Against the Mask: The Rise of Social Romanticism
8. Against the Spectacle: The Crusade of Romantic Anticapitalism
9. Against Aesthetic Values: Aestheticism, Aestheticization, and Staging
10. Two Baptisms and a Divorce: Homo Economicus Versus Homo Aestheticus
Part III. Toward a Social Aesthetics: On the Sensible Logic of Society
11. The Opening: Aesthetic Foundations of the Common World
12. Aisthesis: Senses and Social Sensibility
13. Social Taste and the Will to Please
14. Aesthetic Labor and Social Design: The Value of Appearances
15. Prestige and Other Magic Spells
Conclusion: Social Immaterialism or the Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Afterword
Appendix: Illustrations Mentioned in the Text
Notes
Index