Consumer society : myths and structures / Jean Baudrillard.

By:

Baudrillard, Jean

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Theory, culture & society seriesPublisher: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2017Edition: Rev. editionDescription: ix, 224 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9781473982383 (paper back)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.3 BAU

Contents:

Introduction / 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

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Introduction / 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

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