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Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture (Hardcover)
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Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture (Hardcover)
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Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western
Culture explores the potential links between terror and aesthetics
in modern Western society, specifically the affinity between
terrorism and the possibility of an aesthetic appreciation of
terrorist phenomena or events. But can we actually have an
aesthetic appreciation of terror or terrorism? And if we can, is it
ethical or legitimate? Emmanouil Aretoulakis proposes that Western
spectators and subjects from the eighteenth century onwards have
always felt, unconsciously or not, a certain kind of fascination or
even exhilaration before scenes of tragedy and natural or manmade
disaster. Owing to their immorality, such "forbidden" feelings go
unacknowledged. It would definitely be callous as well as
politically incorrect to acknowledge the existence of aesthetics in
witnessing or representing human misery. Still, as Aretoulakis
insists, our aesthetic faculties or even our appreciation of the
beautiful are already inherent in how we view, appraise, and pass
judgment upon phenomena of terrorism and disaster. Paradoxically,
such a "forbidden aesthetics" is ethical despite its utter
immorality.
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