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Kate Soper
An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life.
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Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg builds up a portrait of Piero della Francesca’s patrons and explains the contemporary intrigues resonant in his paintings. This edition includes additional material dealing with the work of…
What happens when ‘life’s simple joys’ become complicated? When pleasure is transformed as a function of consumption, the innocent comforts of food, nature and place are embedded in complex practices…
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* An exploration of one of the thorniest, and most important, questions of contemporary social and political thought* Written in lively and accessbile style, this will appeal to a wide…
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Kate Soper, et al
Efforts to green the economy and distribute wealth more equitably often sound like a program for joyless lives: make do with less and give up your pleasures. To philosopher Kate…
This book provides a timely forum for current thinking on consumption and citizenship, exploring overlaps and tensions between them. Experts from history, theory, media studies, law, and civil society, retrieve…
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Ginzburg addresses the question: What is the exact distance that permits us to see things as they are? He reflects on themes of feeling astray, of familiarization and defamiliarization, going…
This volume casts a critical eye on representations and practices of consumption in the Western world. It offers a unique contemporary perspective on the themes of counter-consumerism, ecological crisis and…
