THE BANALITY OF THE GOOD

If the walls of our cities are plastered with images of things, this is never for purely decorative reasons: the symbolism proper to every city, even advertising symbolism, is never just aesthetic. The collection of symbols and emblems that are sedimented in stone or that shape stone answers to the...

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Published inGoods p. 20
Main Authors Gemma, Marissa, Coccia, Emanuele
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Fordham University Press 03.07.2018
Edition1
Subjects
advertising
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
Ancient philosophy
Axiology
Behavioral sciences
Business
Business economics
Cities
Cognitive processes
Cognitive psychology
Commercial production
Commodities
Communications
Discourse
Emotion
Emotional states
Enlightenment
Esotericism
Ethics
good
Happiness
Historical methodology
Historiography
History
History of philosophy
Human geography
interiority
Learning
Learning styles
Metropolitan areas
Morality
Normative ethics
Perfection
Philosophy
Platonism
Political geography
Practical theology
Production factors
Production output
Psychology
Religion
Religious experience philosophy
Rhetoric
Semiotics
Social sciences
Socratic philosophy
Symbolic learning
Symbolism
Symbols
Theology
transcendence
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Summary:If the walls of our cities are plastered with images of things, this is never for purely decorative reasons: the symbolism proper to every city, even advertising symbolism, is never just aesthetic. The collection of symbols and emblems that are sedimented in stone or that shape stone answers to the same need that brought about the invention of road signs. We need signs and symbols because our existence in the city is only possible through them. Only thanks to this primordial symbolism, in fact, do we learn to orient ourselves, and only in this symbolic space does every resident know
ISBN:0823280225
9780823280223
DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823280223.003.0004