Dialectic of Taste
Subtitle: On the Rise and Fall of Tuscanization and Other Crises in the Aesthetic Economy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9781137544278
Subjects: Economics, sociological aspects
Description: This book 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.