| Description |
1 online resource (189 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. To Thine Own Self Be True -- 2. Production of the Gods -- 3. Principle of Taste -- 4. Frenzy of Regret -- 5. Demonic Possession -- 6. City of Demons. |
| Summary |
"Challenging prevailing trends toward aesthetic neutrality, James S. Hans argues that there is such a thing as good and bad taste, that taste is something one is born with, and that it is firmly rooted in the mechanics of biology." |
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"Taste is everything, Hans says, for it produces the primary values that guide our lives. Taste is the fundamental organizing mechanism of human bodies, a lifelong effort to fit one's own rhythms and patterns of the natural world and the larger community. It is an aesthetic sorting process by which one determines what belongs in - a conversation, a curriculum, a committee, a piece of art, a meal, a logical argument - and what should be left out. On the one hand, taste is the source of beauty, justice, and a sense of the good. On the other hand, as an arbiter of the laws of fair and free play, taste enters into more ominous and destructive patterns - but patterns nonetheless - of resentment and violence."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophical anthropology.
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Philosophical anthropology. |
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Taste.
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Taste. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hans, James S., 1950- Sovereignty of taste. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2002 0252027124 (DLC) 2001003163 (OCoLC)47050338 |
| ISBN |
9780252093289 (electronic book) |
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0252093283 (electronic book) |
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0252027124 |
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9780252027123 |
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