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Limite vulgaire

Limite vulgaire

Sirven, Hélène
Trétiack, Philippe

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 2234058929
ISBN13: 9782234058927
Publisher: Stock
Published: Feb 21 2022
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French

The spectre of vulgarity haunts today's world. Its power extends every day. It is a modern virus that spreads through contamination. Media, sex, politics, social mores, art, advertisement and fashion... Everything seems to give into provocation, excess, confusion, trash. The uglier it is, the cruder, the more violent, and the more successful it becomes. There is not a day where we do not feel disgusted by the world where we live. Is vulgarity a fatality that befalls us all? Are the 'vulgarocrates' going to rule the world? How to resist to the tide of vulgarity that threatens to submerge us all? Limite Vulgaire answers all these questions and offers a framework for analysing the phenomenon. From string underwear to Vuitton bags and the 'pip-holes' misbehaviour, from mass tourism to Jean-Marie Le Pen's dubious jokes, to Bernard Tapie cockiness, hard sex and porn movies; stock-options, 'destroy' fashion, rap music... every aspect is described, analysed, assessed according to the standards of a vulgarometre . Funny, thought-provoking, serious, controversial, ultra-controversial... and, obviously, vulgar, this book is illustrated with test cases and true stories. Twenty-five years after Pierre Bourdieu's La distinction, this book raises the issue of what it is that generates a drop in social status; exploring the limits of an egalitarian society, it questions gender relations as well as the relation between classes and people, and offers an appraisal of today's democracy.

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