- 240 pages
- English
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About this book
Jean Baudrillard?s classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption.Â
The book includes Baudrillard?s most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society. A chapter on the body demonstrates Baudrillard?s extraordinary prescience for flagging vital subjects in contemporary culture long before others.Â
This English translation begins with a new introductory essay.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Foreword
- Translator’s Acknowledgements
- About the Authors of the Introductions
- Consuming Baudrillard: Introduction to the Revised Edition of The Consumer Society
- Introduction to the First Edition
- Part I The Formal Liturgy of the Object
- 1 Profusion
- 2 The Miraculous Status of Consumption
- 3 The Vicious Circle of Growth
- Part II The Theory of Consumption
- 4 The Social Logic of Consumption
- 5 Towards a Theory of Consumption
- 6 Personalization or the Smallest Marginal Difference
- Part 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
- Index