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300 a| xvi, 356 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Structural analysis in the social sciences;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-341) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction -- The disruptive publicity of transgression -- What is scandal? -- The transgression -- The publicizer -- The public -- More complex forms -- Publicity -- Scandal as lived experience -- Contamination -- Associative contamination -- Audience contamination -- Aggravating elements -- Provocation -- What follows -- The fall of Oscar Wilde -- The scandal of homosexuality in Victorian England -- Victorians and Oscar Wilde before his trials -- The impending scandal -- The dynamics of the Oscar Wilde affair -- The libel trial -- The prosecution and conviction of Wilde -- The American presidency, imperial and imperiled -- Political scandal -- Democracy and political scandal -- The media -- Moral attack and vulnerability -- The vulnerabilities of presidents -- Sociopolitical conjuncture -- Mode of presidential governance -- The traditional presidency and its scandals -- The modern presidency and its protections -- The making of Watergate -- The transgressions -- The unfolding of Watergate -- The presidency after Watergate -- Imperial tendencies in the 2000s -- Investigating corruption in France -- Norm entrepreneurship -- Scandal and norm entrepreneurship -- Corruption in France -- Transformations in the eighties -- The French penal procedure and the investigating magistrates -- The mobilization of the investigating magistrates -- The scandal strategies -- Techniques of insubordination -- Targeting higher-ups -- Publicizing the transgression -- Challenging the political elite -- The consequences of the scandals -- The limits and discontents of scandal -- Sex and the American public sphere -- Sex and scandal -- Sex and politics in the nineteenth century United States -- The rise of modesty -- Sexual liberalization and the decline of modesty -- The rise of sexual politics -- The making of the Lewinsky affair -- Provocation in art -- Transgression in art and its effects -- Impressionism and its scandals -- The moral logics of modern art -- Subversive content -- Form and morality -- The paradoxes of contemporary art -- The crisis of the art object -- The return of the real -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.;

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On scandal : moral disturbances in society, politics, and art / Ari Adut.

Author/creator	Adut, Ari, 1971-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description	xvi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Deviant behavior. Scandals. Sex scandals--Case studies. Scandals--History. --Case studies.

Series	Structural analysis in the social sciences Structural analysis in the social sciences. ^A665669
Contents	Introduction -- The disruptive publicity of transgression -- What is scandal? -- The transgression -- The publicizer -- The public -- More complex forms -- Publicity -- Scandal as lived experience -- Contamination -- Associative contamination -- Audience contamination -- Aggravating elements -- Provocation -- What follows -- The fall of Oscar Wilde -- The scandal of homosexuality in Victorian England -- Victorians and Oscar Wilde before his trials -- The impending scandal -- The dynamics of the Oscar Wilde affair -- The libel trial -- The prosecution and conviction of Wilde -- The American presidency, imperial and imperiled -- Political scandal -- Democracy and political scandal -- The media -- Moral attack and vulnerability -- The vulnerabilities of presidents -- Sociopolitical conjuncture -- Mode of presidential governance -- The traditional presidency and its scandals -- The modern presidency and its protections -- The making of Watergate -- The transgressions -- The unfolding of Watergate -- The presidency after Watergate -- Imperial tendencies in the 2000s -- Investigating corruption in France -- Norm entrepreneurship -- Scandal and norm entrepreneurship -- Corruption in France -- Transformations in the eighties -- The French penal procedure and the investigating magistrates -- The mobilization of the investigating magistrates -- The scandal strategies -- Techniques of insubordination -- Targeting higher-ups -- Publicizing the transgression -- Challenging the political elite -- The consequences of the scandals -- The limits and discontents of scandal -- Sex and the American public sphere -- Sex and scandal -- Sex and politics in the nineteenth century United States -- The rise of modesty -- Sexual liberalization and the decline of modesty -- The rise of sexual politics -- The making of the Lewinsky affair -- Provocation in art -- Transgression in art and its effects -- Impressionism and its scandals -- The moral logics of modern art -- Subversive content -- Form and morality -- The paradoxes of contemporary art -- The crisis of the art object -- The return of the real -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-341) and index.
LCCN	2008005084
ISBN	9780521895897 (hardback)
ISBN	0521895898 (hardback)

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