Distinction: A Social Critique Of The Judgement Of Taste (Routledge Classics Ser.)
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- Synopsis
- No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First published in 1979, the book is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. In the course of everyday life we constantly choose between what we find aesthetically pleasing, and what we consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly. Taste is not pure. Bourdieu demonstrates that our different aesth.
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 640 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781135873165
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Date of Addition:
- 05/26/20
- Copyrighted By:
- President and Fellows of Harvard College and Routledge
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Psychology, Philosophy
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.