The Sovereignty of Taste

The Sovereignty of Taste
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-13 : 0252027124
ISBN-10 : 9780252027123
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Download or read book The Sovereignty of Taste written by James S. Hans and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002-01-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taste is everything, Hans says, for it produces the primary values that guide our lives. Taste is the fundamental organizing mechanism of human bodies, a lifelong effort to fit one's own rhythms and patterns of the natural world and the larger community. It is an aesthetic sorting process by which one determines what belongs in - a conversation, a curriculum, a committee, a piece of art, a meal, a logical argument - and what should be left out. On the one hand, taste is the source of beauty, justice, and a sense of the good. On the other hand, as an arbiter of the laws of fair and free play, taste enters into more ominous and destructive patterns - but patterns nonetheless - of resentment and violence."--Jacket.


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