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On Scandal Hardback: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and art (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) (in English)
Ari Adut
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Cambridge University Press
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On Scandal Hardback: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and art (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) (in English) - Adut, Ari
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Synopsis "On Scandal Hardback: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and art (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) (in English)"
Scandal is the quintessential public event. Here is the first general and comprehensive analysis of this ubiquitous moral phenomenon. Taking up wide-ranging cases in society, politics, and art, Ari Adut shows when wrongdoings generate scandals and when they do not. He focuses on the emotional and cognitive experience of scandals and the relationships among those who are involved in or exposed to them. This perspective explains variations in the effects, frequency, elicited reactions, outcomes, and strategic uses of scandals. On Scandal offers provocative accounts of the Oscar Wilde, Watergate, and Lewinsky affairs. Adut also employs the lens of scandal to address puzzles and questions regarding public life. Why is American politics plagued by sex scandals? What is the cause of the rise in political scandals in Western democracies? Why were Victorians sometimes very accommodating and other times very intolerant of homosexuality? What is the social logic of hypocrisy? Why has transgression been so central to modern art?