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The unveiling of life: Liturgy and the lure of kitsch

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010
This article probes the classic definition of religious aesthetics as related to the notions of beauty, goodness and truth. The phenomenon of kitsch, understood as simulation (or inversion) of beauty, goodness and truth, is taken cognisance of ...
Johan Cilliers
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Uncertainty behind the veil of ignorance [PDF]

, 2011
This paper argues that the decision problem in the original position should be characterized as a decision problem under uncertainty even when it is assumed that the denizens of the original position know that they have an equal chance of ending up in ...
A. FAIK KURTULMUS, Alchian, Fodor, Griffin, Keefe, Keefe, Kreps, Luce, Parfit, Rawls, Rawls, Tuck, Williamson   +12 more
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Living with the Everyday Kitsch Object: A New Existential Potentiality

British Journal of Aesthetics
In response to the twentieth-century tradition of harsh criticism of the phenomenon of kitsch, in the last few decades, ever more scholarly voices have been raised to unearth the positive features of such a ubiquitous phenomenon of modernity.
R. Carli
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O Kitsch e a Crítica Social de Pedro Almodóvar: Uma análise através do figurino do filme Volver

Latin American Journal of Development, 2022
A proposta do presente artigo é analisar as relações e estratégias comunicacionais desempenhadas pelo elemento kitsch na narrativa cinematográfica do diretor espanhol Pedro Almodóvar.
A. Kwitko
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The Comforting Power of Kitsch. The (Esthetic) Meanders of Holocaust Literature

Zagłada Żydów, 2010
The paper is an attempt at outlining the esthetics of kitsch in Holocaust literature.  On the basis of Abraham Moles’ and  Saul Friedländer’s distinctions, the author analyses works of fiction, Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and Littel’s The ...
Aleksandra Ubertowska
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‘Dark Tourism’ and the ‘Kitschification’ of 9/11 [PDF]

, 2012
This paper aims to interrogate the framing of New York’s Ground Zero as a ‘dark tourist’ destination, with particular reference to the entanglement of notions of kitsch in academic discussions of the events of September 11th 2001.
Adorno T. W., Althusser L., Appadurai A., Bansky, Barron S., Călinescu M., Foley M., Foster H., Foster H., Friedlander S., Groys B., Holliday R., Joly D., Kundera M., Latour B., Mitchell W. J. T., Rancière J., Rancière J., Rancière J., Simpson D., Smith M., Stone P., Sturken M., Tracey J Potts, Urry J.   +24 more
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Realism, modernism, and the spectre of Trotsky, part 2: Greenberg [PDF]

, 2018
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Davidson, Neil
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Belleza, kitsch y crítica. Por qué una obra no debe ser interpretada

Fedro, 2020
El ideal romántico de belleza se revela muy problemático por su cercanía al kitsch. Hermann Broch teorizó sobre esta tesis y concluyó que el kitsch romántico encarnaba el antivalor no solo estético, sino también moral.
Javier Pamparacuatro Martín
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Jihadi Kitsch: The Promesse de Bonheur of Islamist Terrorism

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2022
Elaborating on conceptualizations of kitsch in the realm of art and sociology in the context of ISIS propaganda and culture, this article introduces the concept of jihadi kitsch.
Mehmet Ümit Necef, Henriette Frees Esholdt   +1 more
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Il desiderio Kitsch: i troppi paradisi di Walter Siti

Between, 2013
Cosa ne è del desiderio all’interno del Kitsch, sistema in cui la vita è vissuta come uno spot pubblicitario e l’identità come una eterna performance? In una dimensione utopistica in cui l’uomo non cerca altro che una continua soddisfazione come possono ...
Ornella Tajani
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