Aesthetic Injustice

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ID19976550
AuthorsDominic Mciver Lopes (0000-0002-7599-974X, University Killam Professor, University of British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2024
Pages208
Publication date2024-09-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAesthetic Injustice (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198930983.001.0001
OpenAlexW4402656409
Open LibraryOL53261833M
ISBN9780198930983
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited136

There are many aesthetic cultures, and groups with different aesthetic cultures can come in contact with one another, sometimes resulting in conflict. An aesthetic injustice is a failure of policies in large-scale social arrangements to manage the contact well and avoid conflict. This book articulates and defends the cosmopolitan theory of aesthetic injustice: a large-scale social arrangement is aesthetically unjust when and only when it harms people in their capacities as aesthetic agents, thereby subverting interests in the value diversity and social autonomy of aesthetic cultures. It contrasts aesthetic injustice with related phenomena. It presents three cases studies of the aesthetic injustice in cultural appropriation, ideals of bodily beauty, and access to aesthetic resources for disabled people and members of minority identity groups

Aesthetics · Art · Injustice · Sociology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Issues and Sustainability · Social Psychology

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