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Autor/in | Kristjansson, Kristjan |
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Titel | Hiltonism, Hedonism and the Self |
Quelle | In: Ethics and Education, 3 (2008) 1, S.3-14 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1744-9642 |
Schlagwörter | Educational Philosophy; Self Concept; Popular Culture; Mass Media; Postmodernism; Ethical Instruction; Moral Values; Values Education; Feminism; Females; Gender Issues; Sex Stereotypes; Life Style |
Abstract | In her 2006 bestseller about the rise of "raunch culture" and of such self-ascribed "Female Chauvinist Pigs" as the tawdry socialite Paris Hilton, Ariel Levy describes these phenomena as being indicative of a drastic cultural shift. Serious concerns have been raised, most recently by the American Psychological Association, about the effects of this culture on young girls. Recent Web sources have coined a term for the self-concept embodied and projected by Paris Hilton and her admirers: "Hiltonism". In this paper, I examine this type of self-concept. I begin by exploring raunch culture and Hiltonism in some detail and by delineating three main principles of Hiltonism. Two sections follow in which I scrutinise two putative hypotheses on the provenance of the Hiltonistic self-concept: the postmodern and the hedonistic hypotheses. I conclude that only the hedonistic hypothesis holds water. I close by extracting some of the moral and educational implications of Hiltonism as a modern form of hedonism. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |