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Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture

Autor Emmanouil Aretoulakis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 mai 2016
Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture explores the potential links between terror and aesthetics in modern Western society, specifically the affinity between terrorism and the possibility of an aesthetic appreciation of terrorist phenomena or events. But can we actually have an aesthetic appreciation of terror or terrorism? And if we can, is it ethical or legitimate? Emmanouil Aretoulakis proposes that Western spectators and subjects from the 18th century onwards have always felt, unconsciously or not, a certain kind of fascination or even exhilaration before scenes of tragedy and natural or manmade disaster. Owing to their immorality, such forbidden feelings go unacknowledged. It would definitely be callous as well as politically incorrect to acknowledge the existence of aesthetics in witnessing or representing human misery. Still, as Aretoulakis insists, our aesthetic faculties or even our appreciation of the beautiful are already inherent in how we view, appraise and pass judgment upon phenomena of terrorism and disaster. Paradoxically, such a forbidden aesthetics is ethical despite its utter immorality."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498513128
ISBN-10: 1498513123
Pagini: 198
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

Notă biografică

Emmanouil Aretoulakis is senior lecturer at the Faculty of English Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.