Taste and the Household: The Domestic Aesthetic and Moral ReasoningSUNY Press, 2001 M09 27 - 341 pages By exploring the connections between aesthetic sensitivity and moral character, this book connects them both to the larger cultural malaise. It locates the relationship between human nature and moral reasoning in what the author calls domestic aesthetic skill, bringing together moral and aesthetic judgment about little things that are close to home food, clothing, and furniture. McCracken combines the study of modern moral theory with the study of modern economics, contemporary popular culture, advertising, and design, to help understand how heady theories become translated into everyday actions. |
Contents
What Is the Domestic Aesthetic? | 9 |
Phenomenological Intimacy and Distance | 11 |
Phenomenological Distance and the Concept of Alieneation | 16 |
Decorative Art and the Domestic Aesthetic | 22 |
The Life of a Household | 28 |
Intimacy Drama and Respect | 32 |
Womens Roles and the Domestic Aesthetic | 42 |
That Moral Reasoning is Developed through the Exercise of Domestic Aesthetic Skill | 55 |
Baudrillard Barthes and Lurie | 148 |
Bourdieus Distinction | 153 |
Language and the Domestic Aesthetic | 155 |
Peirce and the Later Wittgenstein | 158 |
Fashion Tactics and Phenomenological Distance | 167 |
Weird Signs | 169 |
The Phenomenology of Fashion Tactics | 177 |
Fashion Tactics and Entertainment | 185 |
Reflection and Moral Learning | 58 |
Practicing Judgment | 61 |
Practice and Play | 67 |
Platonic and Aristotelian Ethics and the Domestic Aesthetic | 71 |
Plato | 72 |
Aristotle | 83 |
Postmodernity and Character | 99 |
An Unsatisfying Freedom | 102 |
MacIntyres Criticisms of Modern Ethics | 110 |
Material Conditions and the Historical Relativity of Values | 113 |
Ethics and the Labor Theory of Value | 121 |
Rethinking the Effect of the Enlightenment | 122 |
Mill | 128 |
Kant | 130 |
The Development of the Labor Theory from Locke | 134 |
Smith | 136 |
Marx | 140 |
Language and Oppression Thinking and Working | 145 |
Mass Production Nationalization Advertising and Vagueness | 191 |
Mass Production and Nationalism | 194 |
Linguistization and Advertising | 201 |
Advertising Gender and Domestic Aesthetics | 204 |
Three Tricks of the Trade | 205 |
The Art Commercial | 210 |
Four Representative Women Characters | 219 |
The Feministe | 223 |
The Model | 230 |
A False Dilemma | 237 |
A Brief History of the WomanoftheHouse | 241 |
The Mom | 255 |
The Working Woman | 266 |
Motherilness Friendship and Criticism | 273 |
Notes | 281 |
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