Taste and the household : the domestic aesthetic and moral reasoning / Janet McCracken.

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McCracken, Janet.

Title & Author:

Taste and the household : the domestic aesthetic and moral reasoning / Janet McCracken.

Publication:

Description:

xiv, 341 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-318) and index.
The Domestic Aesthetic Foundation of Moral Reasoning -- What Is the "Domestic Aesthetic"? -- Phenomenological Intimacy and Distance -- Phenomenological Distance and the Concept of Alienation -- Decorative Art and the Domestic Aesthetic -- The Life of a Household -- Intimacy, Drama, and Respect -- Women's Roles and the Domestic Aesthetic -- That Moral Reasoning is Developed through the Exercise of Domestic Aesthetic Skill -- Reflection and Moral Learning -- Practicing Judgment -- Practice and Play -- Platonic and Aristotelian Ethics and the Domestic Aesthetic -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Theory, The Domestic Aesthetic, and the Historical Relativity of Moral Reasoning -- Postmodernity and Character -- An Unsatisfying Freedom -- MacIntyre's Criticisms of Modern Ethics -- Material Conditions and the Historical Relativity of Values -- Ethics and the Labor Theory of Value -- Back to MacIntyre: Rethinking the Effect of the Enlightenment -- Mill -- Kant -- The Development of the Labor Theory from Locke -- Smith -- Marx -- Language and Oppression; Thinking and Working -- Poststructuralist Disappointments: Baudrillard, Barthes, and Lurie -- Bourdieu's Distinction -- Language and the Domestic Aesthetic -- Peirce and the Later Wittgenstein -- Techniques of Vagueness -- Fashion Tactics and Phenomenological Distance -- Weird Signs -- The Phenomenology of Fashion Tactics -- Fashion Tactics and Entertainment -- Mass Production, Nationalization, Advertising, and Vagueness -- Mass Production and Nationalism -- Linguistization and Advertising.

ISBN:

0791451062 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780791451069 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0791451054 (alk. paper)
9780791451052 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Judgment (Aesthetics)
Judgment (Ethics)
Popular culture.
Women in popular culture.
Jugement (Esthétique)
Jugement (Morale)
Culture populaire.
Femmes dans la culture populaire.
popular culture.
Huishouden.
Modeverschijnselen.
Ethische aspecten.
Smaak (cultuur)
Popular culture Influence.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218797
Call No.: BH301.J8 M29 2001
Status: Available

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