The issue of bad taste, between aesthetic judgment and "guilty" pleasures

• Kaituhi matua: Mélissa Thériault (Author)
• Hōputu: Pukapuka
• I whakaputaina: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Ngā marau: article
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In matters of aesthetic appreciation, we all have our "guilty pleasures", those moments when we feel we ought not to appreciate a work judged unworthy of esteem, but when, like it or not, we find it undeniably pleasing. Sometimes termed aesthetic akrasia (a concept taken from the vocabular...