Giving and Taking: Antidotes to a Culture of Greed Most would agree that markets and money are crude measures when it comes to establishing the value of art.. With contributions from leading philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists such as Peter
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| Title | : | Giving and Taking: Antidotes to a Culture of Greed |
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (419 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9462081425 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-28 |
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Most would agree that markets and money are crude measures when it comes to establishing the value of art. What exactly is being valued in the financial approach to culture, and what is being overlooked? Giving and Taking is an ambitious project that sets out to answer these questions. In the form of ten essays by authors from a range of disciplines, the volume represents a collective effort to establish a value of art that escapes or transcends the monetary. With contributions from leading philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists such as Peter Sloterdijk, Lewis Hyde, Lars Spuybroek, Zygmunt Bauman and many others, Giving and Taking offers a rigorous intellectual inquiry into one of the art world's most pressing questions and is crucial for any artist or student of philosophy, art, sociology or economics.
Editorial : About the Author Peter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) is one of the best known and widely read German intellectuals writing today. His 1983 publication of "Critique of Cynical Reason" (published in English in 1988) became the best-selling German book of philosophy since World War II. He became president of the State Academy of Design at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe in 2001. He has been cohost of a discussion program, "Das Philosophische Quartett" (Philosophical Quartet) on German television since 2002.
It is a collection of interviews and essays about society, finding meaning in life, and other such topics. Checked this out at my school library. I found the interviews the most comprehensive, especially the first one of the book.
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