The new aesthetics of deculturation neoliberalism, fundamentalism and kitsch
"What are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vulgarity of kitsch, is the overriding visual language of our times. Drawing on the work of Islam scholar Olivier Roy, who argued that religious funda...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK :
Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
[2019]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47424886*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Deculturation; Decultured education; Liberalism; Political correctness; Excellence rhetoric; Kitsch; Excellence civilization; Image culture; Liberalism and deculturation; Dubai; Liberal utopias; The narcissistic culture of quantification; Liberalism and kitsch; The paradox of freedom; Which culture?; Notes; Chapter 1: A Religion of Excellence; The Gulf countries and excellence culture; A society of excellence; The progressive neoliberal; Positivism and dogmatism; Enlightened excellence.
- Corporate excellence versus Greek excellenceExcellence and utilitarianism; Note; Chapter 2: Kitsch: An "Alternative Aesthetic Truth"; On Bullshit; Does kitsch exist? Some methodological clarifications; Kitsch and liberalism; Kitsch and bullshit; Kitsch and standardization; Interactions between kitsch and bullshit; Is everything relative?; Rhetoric; Note; Chapter 3: Kitsch Liberalism; The Cold War; The denial of kitsch; Managerial kitsch; Kitsch humanism; Militant kitsch; Note; Chapter 4: A Culture of Narcissism; Kitsch and bullshit: Wittgenstein on Fania Pascal's "Narcissism."
- Self-deception and pretentiousnessExcellence@tfu.edu.com; Self-deception; Cheating; Seduction; Coolness; Chapter 5: Cute, Excellent, Sublime, Interesting; The cute, the excellent, and the innocent; The excellent and the sublime; The cute and the sublime; The cute, the interesting, and the sublime; Aesthetics of the non-beautiful; Kitsch; The interesting and the excellent; The cute and the interesting; The interesting, the cute, and the excellent; The interesting, the sublime, and the cute; Trivial versus important; The excellence, the sublime, and the beautiful.
- Conclusion: A religion of excellenceNote; Chapter 6: Can Liberalism Be Saved?; The trajectory of liberalism; Neoliberalism; The paradox of liberalism; The paradox of "universal individualism"; "Enlightenment fundamentalism"; The French intellectual right; Liberalism and freedom; Deculturation: The ideology of indifference; Notes; Chapter 7: Immigration and Relativism: Toward a Better Liberalism?; Religion and relativism; Can refugees be Nietzscheans?; Nietzsche's "tragic relativism"; Tragic versus dramatic; The drama of conspiracies; Good space-bad space; Those who came off badly; Notes.
- Chapter 8: Three Anti-Liberals: Burckhardt, Evola, and MeineckeThe irrational; A better liberalism; Community and culture; Julius Evola; Jakob Burckhardt; Terribles simplificateurs; Notes; Chapter 9: The Narcissistic Culture of Quantification; Liberalism and quantification; Excellence versus existence; Conclusion: The Hermeneutic Solution; Humanists against pseudo-science; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
