Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth The Taste of the World /

• Main Authors: Cicchelli, Vincenzo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Octobre, Sylvie (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Consumption and Public Life
• Subjects: Culture.; Cultural studies.; Social groups.; Family.; Ethnology-Europe.; Youth-Social life and customs.; Sociology of Culture.; Cultural Studies.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; European Culture.; Youth Culture.

By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. It employs the concept of aesthetic-cultural cosmopolitanism to analyse the emergence of an aest...

Table of Contents:

• 1. How Young People Develop a Taste for the World
• Part 1: Configuration of a Taste for the World
• 2. The Morphology of Cultural Consumption Repertoires
• 3. From Global Cultural References to Global Imaginaries
• 4. Five Configurations of Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism
• Conclusion to Part I: A Continuum of Configurations
• Part 2: What Determines a Taste for the World?
• 5. Omnivorism and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism
• 6. Language Skills and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism
• 7. Mobility and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism
• Part 3: Cosmopolitan Amateurs
• 8. Understanding the World
• 9. Feeling the World
• 10. Tensions and Divisions
• Conclusion to Part III: Rejecting the Cultural Discount Hypothesis 11. General Conclusion: A Modern Sensibility for Today's World.