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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Regenia Gagnier |
ISBN: | 0226278530 9780226278537 0226278549 9780226278544 |
OCLC Number: | 43864231 |
Description: | viii, 255 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. On the Insatiability of Human Wants: Economic and Aesthetic "Man" -- 2. Is Market Society the Fin of History?: Market Utopias and Dystopias from Babbage to Schreiner -- 3. Modernity and Progress toward Individualism in Economics and Aesthetics -- 4. Production, Reproduction, and Pleasure in Victorian Aesthetics -- 5. Practical Aesthetics: Rolfe, Wilde, and New Women at the Fin de Siecle -- 6. Practical Aesthetics II: On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in the 1980s -- 7. Practical Aesthetics III: Homelessness as an "Aesthetic Issue" -- App. Taste, or Sex and Class as Culture. |
Responsibility: | Regenia Gagnier. |
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Abstract:
This work begins during a key transitional moment in aesthetic and economic theory, 1871, when both disciplines underwent a turn from production to consumption models. The author traces the shift in Western thought from models of production to consumption.
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- Culture -- Economic aspects.
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- Produktionstheorie
- Soziokultureller Wandel
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