Capitalism, Modernity and Excess
by
Gerda Reith
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
In this engaging new book, Gerda Reith explores key theoretical concepts in the sociology of consumption. Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, Marx and Bataille, amongst others, she investigates the ways that understandings of ‘the problems of consumption’ change over time, and asks what these changes...