Saving beauty
Auteur :
Han, Byung-Chul
Éditeur :
Polity Press
ISBN :
9781509515103
Date de publication :
6 oct. 2017
Dimensions :
21,2 x 14,8 x 0,9 cm
Poids :
170 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty.