The cool-kawaii : Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernity /
Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten.
Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth : Lexington Books,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cool and kawaii -- New world modernity -- Aspects of cuteness -- Cross gender tendencies in cool and kawaii -- Coolness between virtue ethics and aesthetics -- The temptation of kitsch -- Kitsch in Japan: tradition and modernity -- Cool and dandyism: two words--one concept -- Dandyism, consumer society, and virtual reality -- Conclusion: a dialectics of cool and kawaii?
Aesthetics.
Popular culture