Aesthetic Snobbery

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ID4895973
AuthorsStephanie Patridge (0000-0002-2151-1833, Otterbein University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume18
Issue9
Publication date2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12940
OpenAlexW4385381530
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited28

This essay briefly introduces and contextualizes the extant work on aesthetic snobbery, and identifies some areas for further inquiry. Currently four kinds of snobbery have been identified-social contagion snobbery, attitudinal snobbery, contextual snobbery, and straight-up classist snobbery. Interestingly, each kind of snobbery is thought to manifest itself as a distinct epistemic failing, and for this reason they are advanced as distinct, non-competing kinds of snobbery. Some snob's aesthetic judgments will be false or unjustified (social-contagion and straight-up classist), some will be unfitting (contextual), and some will fail to have an apt attitude toward their aesthetic judgment (attitudinal). Because the debate has been framed so narrowly, on how the vice of aesthetic snobbery undermines aesthetic judgment, several fruitful areas of philosophical investigation remain unexplored

Epistemology · Extant taxon · Sociology · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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