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The consumer society : myths and structures
- Title
- The consumer society : myths and structures / Jean Baudrillard.
- Author
- Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007
- Publication
- London : Sage, 2017.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HB801 .B35813 2017 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 224 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This title was one of the first to focus on the processes and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture, and many of Baudrillard's themes, in particular his concepts of simulation and the simulacrum, are featured.
- Series Statement
- Theory, culture & society
- Uniform Title
- Société de consommation. English
- Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
- Alternative Title
- Société de consommation.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-220) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French
- Contents
- Introduction to the revised edition / Barry Smart -- Introduction to the first edition / George Ritzer -- pt. I. The formal liturgy of the object -- 1. Profusion -- 2. The miraculous status of consumption -- 3. The vicious circle of growth -- pt. II. The theory of consumption -- 4. The social logic of consumption -- 5. Towards a theory of consumption -- 6. Personalization, or, The smallest marginal difference -- pt. III. Mass Media, sex and leisure -- 7. Mass-media culture -- 8. The finest consumer object : the body -- 9. The drama of leisure, or, The impossibility of wasting one's time -- 10. The mystique of solicitude -- 11. Anomie in the affluent society -- Conclusion : on contemporary alienation, or, the end of the pact with the devil.
- ISBN
- 1473982375
- 9781473982376
- 1473982383
- 9781473982383
- 9781473994546 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016955372
- OCLC
- ocn959274641
- 959274641
- SCSB-14213189
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library