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On scandal : moral disturbances in society, politics, and art / Ari Adut.
Annenberg Library - Reserve HM811 .A38 2008
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adut, Ari, 1971-
- Series:
- Structural analysis in the social sciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deviant behavior.
- Scandals.
- Sex scandals--Case studies.
- Sex scandals.
- Scandals--History--Case studies.
- History.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The disruptive publicity of transgression
- What is scandal?
- The transgression
- The publicizer
- The public
- More complex forms
- Publicity
- Scandal as lived experience
- Contamination
- Associative contamination
- Audience contamination
- Aggravating elements
- Provocation
- What follows
- The fall of Oscar Wilde
- The scandal of homosexuality in Victorian England
- Victorians and Oscar Wilde before his trials
- The impending scandal
- The dynamics of the Oscar Wilde affair
- The libel trial
- The prosecution and conviction of Wilde
- The American presidency, imperial and imperiled
- Political scandal
- Democracy and political scandal
- The media
- Moral attack and vulnerability
- The vulnerabilities of presidents
- Sociopolitical conjuncture
- Mode of presidential governance
- The traditional presidency and its scandals
- The modern presidency and its protections
- The making of Watergate
- The transgressions
- The unfolding of Watergate
- The presidency after Watergate
- Imperial tendencies in the 2000s
- Investigating corruption in France
- Norm entrepreneurship
- Scandal and norm entrepreneurship
- Corruption in France
- Transformations in the eighties
- The French penal procedure and the investigating magistrates
- The mobilization of the investigating magistrates
- The scandal strategies
- Techniques of insubordination
- Targeting higher-ups
- Publicizing the transgression
- Challenging the political elite
- The consequences of the scandals
- The limits and discontents of scandal
- Sex and the American public sphere
- Sex and scandal
- Sex and politics in the nineteenth century United States
- The rise of modesty
- Sexual liberalization and the decline of modesty
- The rise of sexual politics
- The making of the Lewinsky affair
- Provocation in art
- Transgression in art and its effects
- Impressionism and its scandals
- The moral logics of modern art
- Subversive content
- Form and morality
- The paradoxes of contemporary art
- The crisis of the art object
- The return of the real
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-341) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521895897
- 0521895898
- OCLC:
- 192045575
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