A Philosophy of Luxury

ISBN-13: 9780367138400 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 172 str.

Lambert Wiesing

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"Luxury has a bad reputation, built on marble and gold, boutique shopping and penthouse suites. This award-winning book, finally available in English, forces us to rethink all of that. Wiesing separates luxury from vulgar displays of wealth and power. Instead, he shows that it is an important aesthetic experience, available to all of us. Erudite, accessible, and beautifully translated, Luxury promises to become a classic of philosophical aesthetics." - John V. Kulvicki, Dartmouth College, USA

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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).