Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige

by Barbara Carnevali

Book Overview

Philosophers have long distinguished between appearance and reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface and a more profound truth is deeply rooted in Western culture. At a time of obsession with self-representation, when politics is enmeshed with spectacle and social and economic forces are intensely aestheticized, philosophy remains moored in traditional dichotomies: being versus appearing, interiority versus exteriority,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231187076
• ISBN13: 9780231187077
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"