Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture, Hardback Book

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

Hardback

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks

Description

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 eighteenth 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.

Information

Save 4%

£78.00

£74.25

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information