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The Dialectic of Taste

On the Rise and Fall of Tuscanization and other Crises in the Aesthetic Economy

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. David Michalski

    1. University of California, Davis, USA

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction: What’s at Stake in Taste

    • David Michalski
    Pages 1-13

  3. The Aesthetic Economy

    • David Michalski
    Pages 14-25

  4. Abstract Taste and the Crisis of Value

    • David Michalski
    Pages 26-51

  5. The Allegory of Tuscany

    • David Michalski
    Pages 52-81

  6. Taste as a Social Mediation of Value

    • David Michalski
    Pages 82-86

  7. The Allegory of the Commodity Form

    • David Michalski
    Pages 87-93

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 94-107
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About this book

The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for aesthetics, seen in artisan markets, was born out of the ashes of McDonaldization to become a potent force today, capable of both regulating social identity and sparking social change.

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  • University of California, Davis, USA

    David Michalski

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David Michalski is the Social and Cultural Studies Librarian at the University of California, Davis, USA.

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