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- Etiquette: Reflections on Contemporary Comportment
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Etiquette, the field of multifarious prescriptions governing comportment in life’s interactions, has generally been neglected by philosophers, who may be inclined to dismiss it as trivial, most specifically in contrast to ethics. Philosophy tends to grant absolute privilege to ethics over etiquette, placing the former alongside all of the traditional values favored by metaphysics (order, truth, rationality, mind, masculinity, depth, reality), while consigning the latter to metaphysics’ familiar, divisive list of hazards and rejects (arbitrariness, mere opinion, irrationality, the body, femininity, surface, appearance). Addressing a broad range of subjects, from sexuality, clothes, and cell phones to hip-hop culture, bodybuilding, and imperialism, the contributors to Etiquette challenge these traditional values—not in order to favor etiquette over ethics, but to explore the various ways in which practice subtends theory, in which manners are morals, and in which ethics, the practice of living a good life, has always depended upon the graceful relations for which etiquette provides the armature.
Table of Contents
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- 1. Aristotle’s Aesthetiquette
- pp. 7-16
- 4. The Breathing Breach of Etiquette
- pp. 41-48
- 5. The Etiquette of Adoption
- pp. 49-58
- 7. Coldness and Civility
- pp. 69-94
- 9. The Taciturn Tongue: On Silence
- pp. 105-116
- 10. Handy Etiquette
- pp. 117-120
- 13. “Make Yourself Useful!”
- pp. 151-162
- 14. The American Guest
- pp. 163-170
- 15. A Place Where the Soul Can Rest
- pp. 171-180
- 18. Etiquette and Missile Defense
- pp. 207-222
- 19. Odysseus Lies
- pp. 223-238
- 20. Take Clothes, For Example
- pp. 239-248
- Contributors
- pp. 249-252
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791480915
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
78211796
Pages
268
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No