Saving Beauty

Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty.

• | By (Author): Byung-Chul Han
• | Publisher: Polity Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 06, 2017
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 120 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1509515100
• | ISBN-13: 9781509515103