The Aesthetization of Everyday Consumption
If we are to believe recent Zeitdiagnoses, the diagnoses of the modern culture of consumption, one could claim that quality uncertainty is the general rule rather than the exception. The following is a short outline of the basic ideas of three interesting and important Zeitdiagnoses, which all suppo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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Deciphering markets and money
Year: 2020, Pages: 119-126 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| Summary: | If we are to believe recent Zeitdiagnoses, the diagnoses of the modern culture of consumption, one could claim that quality uncertainty is the general rule rather than the exception. The following is a short outline of the basic ideas of three interesting and important Zeitdiagnoses, which all support the interpretation that quality uncertainty—and the following need for the judgments of taste—is an essential feature of economic markets and modern consumption in general. Colin Campbell argued in his Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism (1987) that the modern consumer is essentially a daydreamer, or a modern hedonist, |
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| ISBN: | 9789523690011 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Gronow, Jukka, 1945 -, Deciphering markets and money
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