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Philosophers have long distinguished between appearance and
reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface
and a more profound truth is deeply rooted in Western culture. At a
time of obsession with self-representation, when politics is
enmeshed with spectacle and social and economic forces are
intensely aestheticized, philosophy remains moored in traditional
dichotomies: being versus appearing, interiority versus
exteriority, authenticity versus alienation. Might there be more to
appearance than meets the eye? In this strikingly original book,
Barbara Carnevali offers a philosophical examination of the roles
that appearances play in social life. While Western metaphysics and
morals have predominantly disdained appearances and expelled them
from their domain, Carnevali invites us to look at society, ancient
to contemporary, as an aesthetic phenomenon. The ways in which we
appear in public and the impressions we make in terms of images,
sounds, smells, and sensations are discerned by other people's
senses and assessed according to their taste; this helps shape our
ways of being and the world around us. Carnevali shows that an
understanding of appearances is necessary to grasp the dynamics of
interaction, recognition, and power in which we live-and to avoid
being dominated by them. Anchored in philosophy and traversing
sociology, art history, literature, and popular culture, Social
Appearances develops new theoretical and conceptual tools for
today's most urgent critical tasks.
Philosophers have long distinguished between appearance and
reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface
and a more profound truth is deeply rooted in Western culture. At a
time of obsession with self-representation, when politics is
enmeshed with spectacle and social and economic forces are
intensely aestheticized, philosophy remains moored in traditional
dichotomies: being versus appearing, interiority versus
exteriority, authenticity versus alienation. Might there be more to
appearance than meets the eye? In this strikingly original book,
Barbara Carnevali offers a philosophical examination of the roles
that appearances play in social life. While Western metaphysics and
morals have predominantly disdained appearances and expelled them
from their domain, Carnevali invites us to look at society, ancient
to contemporary, as an aesthetic phenomenon. The ways in which we
appear in public and the impressions we make in terms of images,
sounds, smells, and sensations are discerned by other people's
senses and assessed according to their taste; this helps shape our
ways of being and the world around us. Carnevali shows that an
understanding of appearances is necessary to grasp the dynamics of
interaction, recognition, and power in which we live-and to avoid
being dominated by them. Anchored in philosophy and traversing
sociology, art history, literature, and popular culture, Social
Appearances develops new theoretical and conceptual tools for
today's most urgent critical tasks.
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