The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press, 2000 - 255 стор. What is the relationship between our conception of humans as producers or creators; as consumers of taste and pleasure; and as creators of value? Combining cultural history, economics, and literary criticism, Regenia Gagnier's new work traces the parallel development of economic and aesthetic theory, offering a shrewd reading of humans as workers and wanters, born of labor and desire. The Insatiability of Human Wants begins during a key transitional moment in aesthetic and economic theory, 1871, when both disciplines underwent a turn from production to consumption models. In economics, an emphasis on the theory of value and the social relations between land, labor, and capital gave way to more individualistic models of consumerism. Similarly, in aesthetics, theories of artistic production or creativity soon bowed to models of taste, pleasure, and reception. Using these developments as a point of departure, Gagnier deftly traces the shift in Western thought from models of production to consumption. From its exploration of early market logic and Kantian thought to its look at the aestheticization of homelessness and our own market boom, The Insatiability of Human Wants invites us to contemplate alternative interpretations of economics, aesthetics, and history itself. |
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... social or eco- nomic class ; in Britain in the nineteenth century they often did ; in the United States today they typically do not . But as Smith showed in the early chapters of The Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ) , most people's subjec ...
... social or eco- nomic class ; in Britain in the nineteenth century they often did ; in the United States today they typically do not . But as Smith showed in the early chapters of The Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ) , most people's subjec ...
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... social groups whose material conditions could be constitutive . One purpose of this book is to recall social visions that challenged modern market society , visions that under current condi- tions of mass communications are in danger of ...
... social groups whose material conditions could be constitutive . One purpose of this book is to recall social visions that challenged modern market society , visions that under current condi- tions of mass communications are in danger of ...
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... social world . " In recent years ratio- nal choice theory has colonized anthropology , biology , political sci- ence , social psychology , and sociology , forging a chasm , especially in the United States , between political science and ...
... social world . " In recent years ratio- nal choice theory has colonized anthropology , biology , political sci- ence , social psychology , and sociology , forging a chasm , especially in the United States , between political science and ...
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... social science that conceives of , and articu- lates , social life and social policy in this way . Yet if commodification is not yet universal , market rhetoric is . In chapter 2 , I refer to a lexicon of fetishism , commodification ...
... social science that conceives of , and articu- lates , social life and social policy in this way . Yet if commodification is not yet universal , market rhetoric is . In chapter 2 , I refer to a lexicon of fetishism , commodification ...
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... social groups . Even allowing that Gauthier does not clarify how we are to arrive at the utopian position of " perfect competition " given both the natural and socially entrenched positions of inequality in which we live our lives , the ...
... social groups . Even allowing that Gauthier does not clarify how we are to arrive at the utopian position of " perfect competition " given both the natural and socially entrenched positions of inequality in which we live our lives , the ...
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On the Insatiability of Human Wants Economic and Aesthetic Man | 19 |
Is Market Society the Fin of History? Market Utopias and Dystopias from Babbage to Schreiner | 61 |
Modernity and Progress toward Individualism in Economics and Aesthetics | 90 |
Production Reproduction and Pleasure in Victorian Aesthetics | 115 |
Practical Aesthetics Rolfe Wilde and New Women at the Fin de Siecle | 146 |
Practical Aesthetics II On Heroes HeroWorship and the Heroic in the 1980s | 176 |
Practical Aesthetics III Homelessness as an Aesthetic Issue | 208 |
Conclusion | 233 |
Taste or Sex and Class as Culture | 235 |
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The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society Regenia Gagnier Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2000 |
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