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Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture
Engelsk Hardback
Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture
Engelsk Hardback

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Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture explores the potential links between terror and aesthetics in modern Western society, specifically the affinity between terrorism and the possibility of an aesthetic appreciation of terrorist phenomena or events. But can we actually have an aesthetic appreciation of terror or terrorism? And if we can, is it ethical or legitimate? Emmanouil Aretoulakis proposes that Western spectators and subjects from the eighteenth century onwards have always felt, unconsciously or not, a certain kind of fascination or even exhilaration before scenes of tragedy and natural or manmade disaster. Owing to their immorality, such “forbidden” feelings go unacknowledged. It would definitely be callous as well as politically incorrect to acknowledge the existence of aesthetics in witnessing or representing human misery. Still, as Aretoulakis insists, our aesthetic faculties or even our appreciation of the beautiful are already inherent in how we view, appraise, and pass judgment upon phenomena of terrorism and disaster. Paradoxically, such a “forbidden aesthetics” is ethical despite its utter immorality.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
182
ISBN-13:
9781498513128
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
1498513123
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Udg. Dato:
19 maj 2016
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
247mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
19 maj 2016
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