Author: McCracken, Janet
Title: Taste and the Household: The Domestic Aesthetic and Moral Reasoning
Description: Albeny [NY], State University of New York, (2001). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xiv, 341 pp. Minor rubbing. Light binding corner bumps. VG. ¶ Contents: The Domestic Aesthetic Foundation of Moral Reasoning: What is the "Domestic Aesthetic?"; That Moral Reasoning is Developed through the Exercise of Domestic Aesthetic Skill; Platonic & Aristotelian Ethics & the Domestic Aesthetic; Theory, The Domestic Aesthetic & the Historical Relativity of Moral Reasoning: Postmodernity & Character: Ethics & the Labor Theory of Value; Language & Oppression: Thinking & Working; Techniques & Vagueness: Fashion Tactics & Phenomenological Distance; Mass Production, Nationalization, Advertising & Vagueness; Women, Character, & Domestic Aesthetic Choice: Four Representative Women Characters; Conclusion: Motherliness, Friendship & Criticism.

Keywords: Aesthetics, Domestic Aesthetic, Philosophy, Judgement, Popular Culture, Women, Moral Reasoning, Gender, Theory