{"product_id":"big-culture-toward-an-aesthetics-of-magnitude-hardcover","title":"Big Culture: Toward an Aesthetics of Magnitude - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Wittenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA philosophical exploration of our relationship to large objects and their outsized psychological effects. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Culture\u003c\/i\u003e asks a simple question: why do big things give us big feelings? Skyscrapers, disasters, and other large phenomena can elicit fear, attraction, and awe. David Wittenberg argues that these feelings cannot be explained through objects' size alone. Instead, he contends that an encounter with bigness is a primal, even violent sensation like little else that we experience in our well-proportioned adult lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on examples as commonplace and as singular as atomic bombs, cinematic effects, pornographic \"macrophilia,\" monstrous creatures, and more, Wittenberg demonstrates how big things tap into our earliest experiences of the world, reigniting our most fundamental feelings about reality. In doing so, Wittenberg offers a new aesthetics of magnitude and of the special role that bigness plays in our everyday perception of objects and images.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Wittenberg\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English and Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa. His books include \u003ci\u003eTime Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47965998874872,"sku":"9780226842905","price":197.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/oLSA4Hrptl9780226842905.webp?v=1781845859","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/big-culture-toward-an-aesthetics-of-magnitude-hardcover","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}