How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's world
The demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves a success or failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, demanding, and global than ever before. Arguing that our perception of the self is changing, Heather Widdows shows that more and more, we locate the self in the body. Nobody is firm enough, thin enough, smooth enough, or buff enough-not without significant effort and cosmetic intervention. To understand these rising demands, we need to recognize their ethical aspect and seek out new communal responses.
| ISBN: | 9780691197142 |
| Publication date: | 17th April 2020 |
| Author: | Heather Widdows |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 360 pages |
| Genres: |
Philosophy: aesthetics Ethics and moral philosophy Social and political philosophy Gender studies, gender groups |
How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves a success or failure.
Perfect Me features in the following genres: Philosophy: aesthetics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and political philosophy, Gender studies, gender groups
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Perfect Me was written by Heather Widdows and published by Princeton University Press
Perfect Me has 360 pages
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