Sympathetic Consumer. Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture, Paperback - Tad Skotnicki

What the struggle to make consumption ethical reveals about our world.

DescriptionA fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lensWhat's...

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What is the consequence of commodifying experiences?

Building on critiques of other sceptical scholars, the feminist, folkloristic approach of this book deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient ...

Facing an uncertain future and an unstable present, our most urgent task today involves a ruthless critique of all that exists.Publisher: John Hunt...

The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand China's political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer cu...

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* Second edition of a popular and lively introduction to the nature and role of consumption in modern societies. * Includes new chapters on brandin...

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"If anyone can save capitalism from the capitalists, it's Steven Pearlstein. This lucid, brilliant book refuses to abandon capitalism to those who ...

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What does consumerism have to do with the sacraments? We live in cultures where our senses of meaning, identity, and purpose are often found in wha...

This book is a comprehensive exploration of the complexities and dilemmas of using the marketplace as an arena for politics. It goes beyond simply ...

The American prison system has gone off the rails. Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American Revolutionary prisons wer...

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Western civilization fashioned a capitalism that created a worldwide economic cornucopia and higher standards of living than any other system, yet ...

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Marieke de Mooij answers the fundamental questions about consumption in this new edition, using her own model of consumer behavior that integrates ...

The split between the Gospel and culture is without doubt the drama of our time, " wrote Paul VI in 1975. Since that time there has been an increas...

A blockbuster book on a key issue of public concern: the nature and impact of multiculturalism Will appeal to academics, undergraduates and the gen...

The American prison system has gone off the rails. Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American Revolutionary prisons wer...

DescriptionHalf a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emer...

What is the relationship between gender and consumerism? Jennifer Scanlon gathers a collection of readings and archival materials to explore the mu...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Craig (St Thomas Aquinas College, USA) MartinNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 1...

DescriptionWhat effect is market integration having on national cultures and social policies? Paulette Kurzer examines Finnish and Swedish alcohol ...

Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for address...

Showing the cultural and institutional processes that have brought the notion of the 'consumer' to life, this book guides the reader on a comprehen...

Reducere. Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement...

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In Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture, editor Daniel K. Finn proposes a field-changing critical realist sociology that puts Christia...

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Why do the UK and US disproportionately incarcerate the mentally ill? Via multiple re-framings of the question-theological, socioeconomic, and psyc...

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An ambitious synthesis of neuroscience, psychology and philosophy promoting a new understanding of morality which will help us to solve society's b...

Reducere. A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz As Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno'...

In addition to exploring the theory of global capitalism and ethics for students, this second edition of the key textbook takes into account many n...

Publisher: Lexington BooksAuthor(s): Michel LarondeNumber of pages: 264Collection: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial FranceP...

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