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Byung-Chul Han Saving beauty
"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, from...
Engels | 95 pagina's | Polity, Cambridge | 2018
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Frank Wilczek A beautiful question
finding nature's deep design
Monografie van de Amerikaanse natuurkundige over schoonheid in de natuurwetenschappen.
Engels | 430 pagina's | Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, [London] | 2015
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