Trump is Gross: Taking Political Taste (and Distaste) Seriously

, ABSTRACT:, This paper advances the somewhat unphilosophical thesis that “Trump is gross” to draw attention to the need to take matters of taste seriously in politics. I begin by exploring the slipperiness of distinctions between aesthetics, epistemology, and ethics, subsequently suggesting that we...

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Main Author: Park, Shelley (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 2017
In: Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
Year: 2017, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 0-0
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