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A Philosophy of Luxury
Author: Wiesing Lambert
Language: EnglishSubjects for A Philosophy of Luxury:
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Da War; Adorno; Raph Ael; Veblen; Good Life; Dada; Exceptional Mental State; Junger; Emilia Galotti; ostentation; Sinn Und Bedeutung; ethics; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; subjectivity; Pregnant Moment; experience; Schiller’s Letters; wealth; Schiller’s View; possession; Complete Intuition; excess; Schiller’s Thoughts; Heidegger; Symbolic Self-presentation; Kant; Schiller’s Approach; Schiller; Border Situations; phenomenology; Vicious Luxury; art; 14th Letter; aesthetics; David Story; luxury; Aesthetic Experience; philosophical aesthetics; Intentional Relationship; ethics philosophy; Dasein’s Everydayness; Utilitarian Orientation; Educated Classes
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In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples, he argues that luxury is an aesthetic experience. Unlike experience gained via the senses, such as seeing, hearing or tasting, he argues that luxury is achieved by possessing something ? an aspect of philosophy that has been largely neglected. As such, luxury becomes a gesture of individual defiance and a refusal to conform to social expectations of restraint. An increasingly rational and goal-oriented ethos in society makes the appeal of luxury grow even stronger.
Drawing on the ideas of philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, Martin Heidegger and the novelist Ernst Jünger, as well as sociologists such as Thorstein Veblen and Theodor Adorno, A Philosophy of Luxury will be of great interest to those in philosophy, art, cultural studies and literature as well as sociology.
Foreword to the English edition Introduction Part 1: First play, then war, fear and drugs – and now: luxury 1. Anthropology and the Idea of self-experience 2. Aesthetics and the search for moments of self-experience Part 2: Luxury: The Dadaism of Possession 3. The Judgment of Luxury 4. Luxury: a special aesthetic experience 5. Why Luxury? Bibliography Index.
Lambert Wiesing is Chair of Image Theory and Phenomenology at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. His books include Artificial Presence: Philosophical Studies in Image Theory (2009), and The Philosophy of Perception: Phenomenology and Image Theory (2014).