Ethik der Appropriation - 1. Auflage
Balzer, Jens (1969-)
Berlin : Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2022 - 87 Seiten
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Ethik der Appropriation
/ Jens Balzer
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Berlin : Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2022
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1. Auflage
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87 Seiten
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Talk of cultural appropriation is omnipresent. It calls into question the legitimacy of cultural production that makes use of the stocks of other, "foreign" traditions. In fact, as Jens Balzer shows, every culture is based on appropriation. The question, therefore, is not whether appropriation is legitimate, but how to properly appropriate. Balzer knowledgeably outlines an "ethics of appropriation" with recourse to the emergence of hip-hop and the surprisingly widespread desire to be an "Indian" in the post-war period in Germany. In it, he contrasts a bad, because naturalizing and defining, appropriation with a good appropriation that consciously uses its own fabrication. Such ethics also become the basis of an enlightened relationship to one's own identity