Lambert Wiesing

A Philosophy of Luxury (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Roth, Nancy Ann

• Format: ePub

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
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429639715
• Artikelnr.: 57006172

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.