As a longtime philistine, I have always been attracted to Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction. His ideas there seemed to me to demystify the ideology of aesthetics, presenting taste as an expression of class status and power, with the relation to "beauty" or "the good" serving only as an alibi.
Methexis in darkness
As a longtime philistine, I have always been attracted to Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction. His ideas there seemed to me to demystify the ideology of aesthetics, presenting taste as an expression of class status and power, with the relation to "beauty" or "the good" serving only as an alibi.