Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal

How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's world The demand to be beautiful is...
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Author: Heather Widdows
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Language: English
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Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal by Widdows, Heather

Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal

CHF 48.35

Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal

CHF 48.35
Author: Heather Widdows
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's world

The demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves a success or failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, demanding, and global than ever before. Arguing that our perception of the self is changing, Heather Widdows shows that more and more, we locate the self in the body. Nobody is firm enough, thin enough, smooth enough, or buff enough--not without significant effort and cosmetic intervention. To understand these rising demands, we need to recognize their ethical aspect and seek out new communal responses.

Author: Heather Widdows
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 02/25/2020
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780691197142

About the Author
Heather Widdows is the John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. Her books include Global Ethics, The Connected Self, and The Moral Vision of Iris Murdoch. Twitter @ProfWiddows

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