Buying the World

Buying the World

Hickey examines the way Americans talk about the things they find beautiful. He suggests that the discourse of beauty is an empirical, social practice of valuing that arises out of one's relationship with an external world largely bereft of transcendental norms.

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Veröffentlicht in:Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 2002-09, Vol.131 (4), p.69-87
1. Verfasser: Hickey, Dave
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Aesthetics
Americans
Area studies
Art objects
Artists
Beauty
Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
Catholicism
Commerce
Constituents
Divine grace
Emotions
Metaphysics
Perception
Renaissance art
Semiotic signs
Social aspects
Society
Syntax
Traditions
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Zusammenfassung:Hickey examines the way Americans talk about the things they find beautiful. He suggests that the discourse of beauty is an empirical, social practice of valuing that arises out of one's relationship with an external world largely bereft of transcendental norms.
ISSN:0011-5266
1548-6192