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托斯丹·凡勃伦:有闲阶级论·摘录 83

托斯丹·凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》· The Theory of the Leisure Class · 投资

The process of developing an aesthetic nausea takes more or less time; the length of time required in any given case being inversely as the degree of intrinsic odiousness of the style in question. This time relation between odiousness and instability in fashions affords ground for the inference that the more rapidly the styles succeed and displace one another, the more offensive they are to sound taste. The presumption, therefore, is that the farther the community, especially the wealthy classes of the community, develop in wealth and mobility and in the range of their human contact, the more imperatively will the law of conspicuous waste assert itself in matters of dress, the more will the sense of beauty tend to fall into abeyance or be overborne by the canon of pecuniary reputability, the more rapidly will fashions shift and change, and the more grotesque and intolerable will be the varying styles that successively come into vogue.

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定位:Excerpt 83 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

培养出审美上的恶心感需要时间;某个款式本身越讨厌,所需时间越短。这种讨厌程度与时尚不稳定之间的时间关系,可以推出:款式替换得越快,对健康审美就越冒犯。由此可以推测,一个社会,尤其是其中的富裕阶层,越是在财富、流动性和人际接触范围上发展,炫耀性浪费法则在穿着上就越强势,美感就越容易退居次席或被金钱体面标准压过,时尚就变得越快,轮流流行的款式也越怪诞、越让人难以忍受。

上下文

凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》把时尚更迭速度与炫耀性浪费的强度联系起来,批评富裕社会的审美退化。

今日一问

你所在的圈子,是不是越有钱越忙,穿衣风格反而越怪、越难持久?

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