E Halton: 2 books

From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution: John Stuart-Glennie, Karl Jaspers, and a New Understanding of the Idea

by E. Halton
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014

In 1873, John Stuart Stuart-Glennie elaborated a theory of 'the moral revolution' to characterize the historical shift from roughly 600 BCE in a variety of civilizations, as part of a critical theory of history. This book brings light to the now eclipsed theory and offers new contexts and understandings of the phenomenon.

New Forms of Consumption

Consumers, Culture, and Commodification

by Jorge Arditi, Matthew D. Bramlett, Karen A. Cerulo
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000

Consumption as a field of cultural studies overlaps with theories of postmodernism, the social construction of self, commodification in late capitalism, and the role of mass media in daily life. New forms of consumption such as those facilitated by cyberspace, themed environments, the commodification...