By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. It employs the concept of aesthetico-cultural cosmopolitanism to analyse the emergence of an aesthetic openness to alterity as a new generational "good taste".

Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth critically examines the consumption of cultural products and imaginaries that provide genuine insight into social change, particularly in regards to young people, who play the largest role in cultural circulation. This book will be of interest to students and academics across a wide range of readers, including cultural theorists, and students engaged in debates on cultural consumption, the globalization of culture and transnational aesthetic codes.

Examines the aesthetic and cultural consumption that shapes an individual's relationship to the world Uses the concept of cosmopolitanism to explain ordinary, everyday behaviours Proposes a new subjective figure, that of the cosmopolitan amateur

Autorentext

Vincenzo Cicchelli is an Associate Professor at the Université Paris Descartes, France and a Research Fellow at GEMASS (CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne), France.

Sylvie Octobre is a Researcher at the Département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques (DEPS) of the French Ministry of Culture, and an Associate Research Fellow at GEMASS (CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne), France.

Inhalt

1. How Young People Develop a Taste for the World.- Part 1: Configuration of a Taste for the World .- 2. The Morphology of Cultural Consumption Repertoires .- 3. From Global Cultural References to Global Imaginaries .- 4. Five Configurations of Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism.- Conclusion to Part I: A Continuum of Configurations.- Part 2: What Determines a Taste for the World?.- 5. Omnivorism and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism.- 6. Language Skills and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism.- 7. Mobility and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism.- Part 3: Cosmopolitan Amateurs.- 8. Understanding the World .- 9. Feeling the World.- 10. Tensions and Divisions.- Conclusion to Part III: Rejecting the Cultural Discount Hypothesis 11. General Conclusion: A Modern Sensibility for Today's World.