Etiquette: Reflections on Contemporary Comportment (SUNY series, Hot Topics: Contemporary Philosophy and Culture)

Etiquette, The Field Of Multifarious Prescriptions Governing Comportment In Life's Interactions, Has Generally Been Neglected By Philosophers, Who May Be Inclined To Dismiss It As Trivial, Most Specifically In Contrast To Ethics. Philosophy Tends To Grant Absolute Privilege To Ethics Over Etiquette, Placing The Former Alongside All Of The Traditional Values Favored By Metaphysics (order, Truth, Rationality, Mind, Masculinity, Depth, Reality), While Consigning The Latter To Metaphysics' Familiar, Divisive List Of Hazards And Rejects (arbitrariness, Mere Opinion, Irrationality, The Body, Femininity, Surface, Appearance). Addressing A Broad Range Of Subjects, From Sexuality, Clothes, And Cell Phones To Hip-hop Culture, Bodybuilding, And Imperialism, The Contributors To Etiquette Challenge These Traditional Values - Not In Order To Favor Etiquette Over Ethics, But To Explore The Various Ways In Which Practice Subtends Theory, In Which Manners Are Morals, And In Which Ethics, The Practice Of Living A Good Life, Has Always Depended Upon The Graceful Relations For Which Etiquette Provides The Armature. -- From Back Cover. Introduction: On Being Becoming / Ron Scapp And Brian Seitz -- Aristotle's Aesthetiquette / Nicholas Pappas -- The Art Of The Dis: Hip-hop's Battle Royale / Lynne D Johnson -- Gay Etiquette: A Brief Consideration / Jeff Weinstein -- The Breathing Breach Of Etiquette / Kenneth J. Saltman -- The Etiquette Of Adoption / Michael D. Colberg -- Impolitics: Toward A Resistant Comportment / Trent H. Hamann -- Coldness And Civility / Alison Leigh Brown -- Eating Dogs And Women: Abject Rules Of Etiquette In 301/302 / Tina Chanter -- The Taciturn Tongue: On Silence / Brian Schroeder -- Handy Etiquette / David Farrell Krell -- Murder So Bland: The Implosion Of Disetiquette / Mark S. Roberts -- Branded From The Start: The Paradox Of (the) American (novel Of) Manners / Hildegard Hoeller -- Make Yourself Useful / Shannon Winnubst -- The American Guest / Kevin Mcdonald -- A Place Where The Soul Can Rest / Bell Hooks -- Slurping Soda, Twirling Spaghetti: Etiquette, Fascism, And Pleasure / Don Handon Johnson -- Make It Look Easy: Thoughts On Social Grace / Karmen Mackendrick -- Etiquette And Missile Defense / Robin Truth Goodman -- Odysseus Lies / Thomas Thorp -- Take Clothes, For Example / Hazel E. Barnes. Edited By Ron Scapp, Brian Seitz. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Etiquette......Page 4 Contents......Page 8 INTRODUCTION: On Being Becoming......Page 10 1. Aristotle’s Aesthetiquette......Page 16 2. The Art of the Dis: Hip-Hop’s Battle Royale......Page 26 3. Gay Etiquette: A Brief Consideration......Page 42 4. The Breathing Breach of Etiquette......Page 50 5. The Etiquette of Adoption......Page 58 6. Impolitics: Toward A Resistant Comportment......Page 68 7. Coldness and Civility......Page 78 8. Eating Dogs and Women: Abject Rules of Etiquette in 301/302......Page 104 9. The Taciturn Tongue: On Silence......Page 114 10. Handy Etiquette......Page 126 11. Murder So Bland: The Implosion of Disetiquette......Page 130 12. Branded from the Start: The Paradox of (the) American(Novel of ) Manners......Page 144 13. “Make Yourself Useful!”......Page 160 14. The American Guest......Page 172 15. A Place Where the Soul Can Rest......Page 180 16. Slurping Soda,Twirling Spaghetti: Etiquette, Fascism, and Pleasure......Page 190 17. Make It Look Easy: Thoughts on Social Grace......Page 208 18. Etiquette and Missile Defense......Page 216 19. Odysseus Lies......Page 232 20. Take Clothes, For Example......Page 248 Contributors......Page 258 B......Page 262 C......Page 263 E......Page 264 H......Page 265 L......Page 266 P......Page 267 S......Page 268 Z......Page 269