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Saving Beauty

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Saving Beauty

By Byung-Chul Han

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About the book

Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty. In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han reinvigorates aesthetic theory for our digital age. He interrogates our preoccupation with all things slick and smooth, fr...Show more

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ISBN

9781509515103

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2017

Language

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1

Original title

Saving Beauty

Format

Paperback

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