The Dialectic of Taste [electronic resource] : On the Rise and Fall of Tuscanization and other Crises in the Aesthetic Economy /
Michalski, David.author.
The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for aesthetics, seen in artisan markets, was born out of the ashes of McDonaldization to become a potent force today, capable of both regulating social identity and sparking social change.
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""Cover ""; ""Half-Title  ""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction: What?s at Stake in Taste""; ""2 The Aesthetic Economy""; ""3 Abstract Taste and the Crisis of Value""; ""4 The Allegory of Tuscany""; ""5 Taste as a Social Mediation of Value""; ""6 The Allegory of the Commodity Form""; ""References""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for aesthetics, seen in artisan markets, was born out of the ashes of McDonaldization to become a potent force today, capable of both regulating social identity and sparking social change.
Economic sociology.
Culture.
Ethnology.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Cultural studies.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Sociology of Culture.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Cultural Studies.