Lambert Wiesing

A Philosophy of Luxury

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is luxury? Is someone who finds luxury normal experiencing luxury? Luxury has received remarkably little sustained philosophical examination. This thought-provoking book explores these questions and more. It will be of interest to those in aesthetics, art, cultural studies, literature, and sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 206g
• ISBN-13: 9780367138417
• ISBN-10: 0367138417
• Artikelnr.: 57111947

Autorenporträt

Lambert Wiesing is Chair of Image Theory and Phenomenology at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. His books include Artificial Presence: Philosophical Studies in Image Theory (2009), and The Philosophy of Perception: Phenomenology and Image Theory (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the English edition Introduction Part 1: First play, then war,
fear and drugs - and now: luxury 1. Anthropology and the Idea of
self-experience 2. Aesthetics and the search for moments of self-experience
Part 2: Luxury: The Dadaism of Possession 3. The Judgment of Luxury 4.
Luxury: a special aesthetic experience 5. Why Luxury? Bibliography Index.