How is value negotiated in the arts and culture? What is quality? And what does it entail to talk about quality in an artistic and cultural context? The ten articles in Contested Qualities discuss such questions from a variety of perspectives. They reflect on the conceptual and historical background for the discussion about quality, they analyse quality from the perspective of critical theory, and they raise the question: On which grounds if common grounds can be found is aesthetic and cultural value evaluated today?
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How do people make judgments about what food is worth eating and what tastes good?; how do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality?...
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<p><b>With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem</b></p><p>It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as...
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<p>From Beauty to Compassion, from Pleasure to Terror, from Resignation to Joy -- here is an insightful exploration of the rich diversity of human qualities. J. Ruth Gendler''s evocative book has as its cast of familiar characters our...
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