Aesthetics: Aesthetic Embodiment and Commodity Capitalism

A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3-23

  Mascia Lees, Frances E ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"aesthetic," a slippery term complicating history in Western philosophy; Aesthetic, central concern to critical theory; Aesthetics aesthetic embodiment and commodity capitalism; Anthropology, interest in the senses investigating how meanings are invested; Buck Morss, arguing that deadening of political response and passive consumers; Danger of numbing effects of consumer capitalism on human senses; Ethnography of aesthetic notions of beauty; Ideology of an aesthetic; Kantian notion of aesthetic as autonomous, removed from normal needs and desires; Los Angeles's Bonaventure Hotel disorienting aesthetic space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857826750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444340488.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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