What qualifies a human quality as being worth analysed in cultural studies?
Not every human quality is worth being analysed in Cultural Studies. There are several prerequisites that have to be fulfilled before a concept can become subject to, or rather, category of, analysis. A list of the necessary qualities was nowhere to be obtained, so I had to rely on common sense, and try to figure out the necessary prerequisites by myself and see, whether they can be applied to the concept of beauty. I will pick one quality which I think is important for a human quality to become subject to academic inquiry, then give an example how this relates to a category that is already “official” (like race etc..) and then see whether beauty fulfils this criterion or not (it always does). As a matter of fact, the categories listed below are somewhat overlapping, because to cover the full range of a fuzzy subject, redundancies are almost inevitable. • Obviousness Something that is not obvious cannot become part of public discourse. This statement may be trivial, but also obvious th
