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The Subversion of Beauty
- Author(s):
- Arnold Berleant (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Subject(s):
- Aesthetics, Culture
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- aesthetic experience, aesthetic awareness, aesthetic co-optation
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M64B2X47X
- Abstract:
- We can see how an aesthetic analysis of the mechanisms of mass culture can reveal many of the hidden ways in which sensibility is appropriated and controlled. It may not be too far-fetched to recall Aristotle’s definition of a slave as a living tool. How else should we think of a person whose sensibility has been so taken over that one’s very perception of the world is controlled by others. This is more than physical domination, more than thought control; it is control over the very substance of experience. Would it be too strong to call this total enslavement? Through such an analysis as this essay suggests, aesthetics is empowered to become an instrument of emancipation.
- Notes:
- Published in Chinese only. Translated by Zhao Yu, South China Academics (University of Macau), 2018.
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- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter Show details
- Publisher:
- University of Macau
- Pub. Date:
- 2018
- Author/Editor:
- Zhao Yu
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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