Snobbery in Appreciative Contexts

Abstract Matthew Kieran has recently argued that those he calls ‘appreciative snobs’ go wrong by valuing appreciative objects primarily because of their ability to raise the snob’s social status, what I call social contagion snobbery. In this paper, I argue that there are at least two other ways tha...

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Veröffentlicht in:The British journal of aesthetics 2018-09, Vol.58 (3), p.241-253
1. Verfasser: Patridge, Stephanie
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract Matthew Kieran has recently argued that those he calls ‘appreciative snobs’ go wrong by valuing appreciative objects primarily because of their ability to raise the snob’s social status, what I call social contagion snobbery. In this paper, I argue that there are at least two other ways that snobbery commonly manifests itself in appreciative contexts, what I call attitudinal snobbery and contextual snobbery. As it turns out, all three snobs—Kieran’s social-contagion snob, the attitudinal snob, and the contextual snob—represent distinct ways that appreciative judgments can go wrong because of how socio-hierarchical elements figure into the snob’s appreciative judgments.
ISSN:0007-0904
1468-2842
DOI:10.1093/aesthj/ayy024