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Beschreibung

Vinyl records. Board games. Paperback books. Film. A philosopher dives into the analog world to show what it offers us and what it says about our values.

Packed with first-person anecdotes, hand-drawn illustrations, and extensive scholarship, Darren Hudson Hick takes us through the pleasure of board games and jigsaw puzzles and inside the values of materiality, care, and agency. Hick moves from pinball machines and first editions to meditative cleaning and pottery to introduce us to key ideas in value theory, everyday aesthetics, virtue theory, and care ethics, alongside findings from psychology, anthropology, and sociology.

What accounts for the resurgence of analog media? Why are we buying all this stuff? Hick approaches these questions from a pragmatist perspective-a view that demands drawing on personal experience to better understand the values that pervade our daily lives. The result is a lively and informed exploration of material culture that tells us a surprising amount about ourselves and how we live.

Whenever we set up a board game, dust a record, load a roll of film, or sit down with a coloring book, we get to think about what we value. The Love of Analog is a study in what's important to us. It's a celebration of being human.

Vinyl records. Board games. Paperback books. Film. A philosopher dives into the analog world to show what it offers us and what it says about our values.

Packed with first-person anecdotes, hand-drawn illustrations, and extensive scholarship, Darren Hudson Hick takes us through the pleasure of board games and jigsaw puzzles and inside the values of materiality, care, and agency. Hick moves from pinball machines and first editions to meditative cleaning and pottery to introduce us to key ideas in value theory, everyday aesthetics, virtue theory, and care ethics, alongside findings from psychology, anthropology, and sociology.

What accounts for the resurgence of analog media? Why are we buying all this stuff? Hick approaches these questions from a pragmatist perspective-a view that demands drawing on personal experience to better understand the values that pervade our daily lives. The result is a lively and informed exploration of material culture that tells us a surprising amount about ourselves and how we live.

Whenever we set up a board game, dust a record, load a roll of film, or sit down with a coloring book, we get to think about what we value. The Love of Analog is a study in what's important to us. It's a celebration of being human.

Über den Autor
Darren Hudson Hick is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Furman University, South Carolina, USA. He is the author of The Love of Analog: Meditations on Value (2026), Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (2023), Artistic License: The Philosophical Problems of Copyright & Appropriation (2017), coeditor of The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying (Bloomsbury, 2016), and General Editor of the digital collection, Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Return to Analog
2. The Value of Material
3. The Value of Care
4. The Value of Agency
5. Knowing What's Important
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781350612945
ISBN-10: 1350612944
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hick, Darren Hudson
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 13 bw illus
Maße: 196 x 128 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Darren Hudson Hick
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2026
Gewicht: 0,175 kg
Artikel-ID: 136360755