On scandal
Subtitle: moral disturbances in society, politics, and art
By: Ari Adut.
Series: Structural analysis in the social sciences
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521895897; 9780521720403
Subjects: Deviant behavior; Scandals; Sex scandals -- Case studies; Scandals -- History -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The disruptive publicity of transgression; title: What is scandal?; title: The transgression; title: The publicizer; title: The public; title: More complex forms; title: Publicity; title: Scandal as lived experience; title: Contamination; title: Associative contamination; title: Audience contamination; title: Aggravating elements; title: Provocation; title: What follows; title: The fall of Oscar Wilde; title: The scandal of homosexuality in Victorian England; title: Victorians and Oscar Wilde before his trials; title: The impending scandal; title: The dynamics of the Oscar Wilde affair; title: The libel trial; title: The prosecution and conviction of Wilde; title: The American presidency, imperial and imperiled; title: Political scandal; title: Democracy and political scandal; title: Media; title: Moral attack and vulnerability; title: The vulnerabilities of presidents; title: Sociopolitical conjuncture; title: Mode of presidential governance; title: The traditional presidency and its scandals; title: The modern presidency and its protections; title: The making of Watergate; title: The transgressions; title: The unfolding of Watergate; title: The presidency after Watergate; title: Imperial tendencies in the 2000s; title: Investigating corruption in France; title: Norm enforcement and entrepreneurship; title: Scandal and norm entrepreneurship; title: Corruption in France and its underenforcement; title: Transformations of the eighties; title: The French penal procedure and investigating magistrates; title: The mobilization of the investigating magistrates; title: The scandal strategies; title: Techniques of insubordination; title: Targeting higher-ups; title: Publicizing the transgression; title: Challenging the political elite; title: The consequences of the scandals; title: The limits and discontents of scandal; title: Sex and the American public sphere; title: Sex and scandal; title: Sex and politics in the nineteenth century United States; title: Rising modesty; title: Sexual liberalization and the decline of modesty; title: The rise of sexual politics; title: The making of the Lewinsky affair; title: Provocation in art; title: Transgression in art and its effects; title: Impressionism and its scandals; title: The moral logics of modern art; title: The subversive content of modern art; title: Form and morality; title: The paradoxes of contemporary art; title: The crisis of the object of art; title: The return of the real; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: References.