Ethics of Sightseeing

Name: Ethics of Sightseeing
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ISBN: 9780520257832

ISBN-10: 0520257839

ISBN-13: 9780520257832

Edition: 2011

Authors: Dean MacCannell

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/19/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Dean MacCannellis Professor Emeritus of Environmental Design at the University of California, Davis, and is the author ofThe Tourist(UC Press).



List of Illustrations


Preface


Prologue: I Was a Tourist at Freud House, London



The Ubiquitous Tourist and Postmodern Paranoia



Tourist/Other and the Unconscious



Staged Authenticity Today



Recent Trends in Research and the New Moral Tourism



Why Sightseeing?



Toward an Ethics of Sightseeing



Trips and Their Reason



City and Countryside as Symbolic Constructs



The Tourist in the Urban Symbolic



Looking Through the Landscape



The Imagination Versus the Imaginary



The Touristic Attitude: Acceding to the Imaginary



The Bilbao Effect: Ethical Symbolic Representation



Painful Memory



The Intentional Structure of Tourist Imagery



Tourist Agency


Appendix: Tourism as a Moral Field


Notes


Index