Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth The Taste of the World

By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. It employs the concept of aesthetic-cultural cosmopolitanism to analyse the emergence of an aest...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cicchelli, Vincenzo, Octobre, Sylvie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
Series:Consumption and Public Life
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. How Young People Develop a Taste for the World
  • Part 1: Configuration of a Taste for the World
  • 2. The Morphology of Cultural Consumption Repertoires
  • 3. From Global Cultural References to Global Imaginaries
  • 4. Five Configurations of Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism
  • Conclusion to Part I: A Continuum of Configurations
  • Part 2: What Determines a Taste for the World?
  • 5. Omnivorism and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism
  • 6. Language Skills and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism
  • 7. Mobility and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism
  • Part 3: Cosmopolitan Amateurs
  • 8. Understanding the World
  • 9. Feeling the World
  • 10. Tensions and Divisions
  • Conclusion to Part III: Rejecting the Cultural Discount Hypothesis 11. General Conclusion: A Modern Sensibility for Today's World