Taste and the Household: The Domestic

Janet McCracken is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lake Forest College.

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

1

(8)

PART I: The Domestic Aesthetic Foundation of Moral Reasoning

What is the ``Domestic Aesthetic''?

9

(46)

Phenomenological Intimacy and Distance

11

(5)

Phenomenological Distance and the Concept of Alienation

16

(6)

Decorative Art and the Domestic Aesthetic

22

(6)

The Life of a Household

28

(4)

Intimacy, Drama, and Respect

32

(10)

Women's Roles and the Domestic Aesthetic

42

(13)

That Moral Reasoning is Developed through the Exercise of Domestic Aesthetic Skill

55

(16)

Reflection and Moral Learning

58

(3)

Practicing Judgment

61

(6)

Practice and Play

67

(4)

Platonic and Aristotelian Ethics and the Domestic Aesthetic

71

(28)

Plato

72

(11)

Aristotle

83

(16)

PART II: Theory, The Domestic Aesthetic, and the Historical Relativity of Moral Reasoning

Postmodernity and Character

99

(22)

An Unsatisfying Freedom

102

(8)

Macintyre's Criticisms of Modern Ethics

110

(3)

Material Conditions and the Historical Relativity of Values

113

(8)

Ethics and the Labor Theory of Value

121

(24)

Back to MacIntyre: Rethinking the Effect of the Enlightenment

122

(6)

Mill

128

(2)

Kant

130

(4)

The Development of the Labor Theory from Locke

134

(2)

Smith

136

(4)

Marx

140

(5)

Language and Oppression; Thinking and Working

145

(22)

Poststructuralist Disappointments: Baudrillard, Barthes, and Lurie

148

(5)

Bourdieu's Distinction

153

(2)

Language and the Domestic Aesthetic

155

(3)

Peirce and the Later Wittgenstein

158

(9)

PART III: Techniques of Vagueness

Fashion Tactics and Phenomenological Distance

167

(24)

Weird Signs

169

(8)

The Phenomenology of Fashion Tactics

177

(8)

Fashion Tactics and Entertainment

185

(6)

Mass Production, Nationalization, Advertising, and Vagueness

191

(28)

Mass Production and Nationalism

194

(7)

Linguistization and Advertising

201

(3)

Advertising, Gender, and Domestic Aesthetics

204

(1)

Three Tricks of the Trade

205

(5)

The Art Commercial

210

(9)

PART IV: Women, Character, and Domestic Aesthetic Choice

Four Representative Women Characters

219

(54)

The Feministe

223

(7)

The Model

230

(7)

A False Dilemma

237

(4)

A Brief History of the Woman-of-the-House

241

(14)

The Mom

255

(11)

The Working Woman

266

(7)

Conclusion: Motherliness, Friendship, and Criticism

273

(8)

Notes

281

(28)

Bibliography

309

(10)

Index

319

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