The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern ConsumerismThe Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism was first piblished by Basil Blackwell of Oxford in 1987. Editions have appeared in Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian and Chinese but no copies have been available in English since 1998. This Alcuin Academic edition has been published to fill this gap and meet the needs of those academics and students who have contacted me in search of an English-language version of the book. I have appended to this edition a list of my publicatrions on consumption that have appeared since 1987. I have considered writing a revised edition which critics as well as friends have suggested is long overdue. This is a task that I do intend to undertake in the near future; and hopefully in time fore the twentieth anniversary of the book's publication. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Spirit of Modern Consumerism | 15 |
Accounting for the Consumer Revolution in EighteenthCentury England | 17 |
The Puzzle of Modern Consumerism | 36 |
Traditional and Modern Hedonism | 58 |
Modern Autonomous Imaginative Hedonism | 77 |
The Romantic Ethic | 97 |
The Other Protestant Ethic | 99 |
The Ethic of Feeling | 138 |
The Aristocratic Ethic | 161 |
The Romantic Ethic | 173 |
Conclusion | 202 |
Notes | 228 |
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action activity aesthetic argument aristocratic Arminian artist associated attitudes beauty beliefs benevolence Billy Liar Bohemian Calvinism Calvinist Cambridge Platonists character claim concern conduct consequence conspicuous consumption consumer behaviour consumer revolution consumption crucial cult cultural dandy day-dreaming demand desire doctrine dream economic eighteenth century emotion emulation England English example experience expression fact fantasies fashion feelings Gothic novel hedonism hedonistic hence History human Ibid idea ideal images imagination individual Industrial Revolution J. H. Plumb Leibniz London luxury manifest manipulation Marianne Max Weber McKendrick merely middle classes modern consumerism modern hedonism moral motives nature novel observes one's pattern philosophy Pietism pleasure pleasure-seeking poetry possible problem Protestant ethic Protestantism Puritan rational reason religion religious romantic romantic love Romanticism satisfaction self-illusory sense sensibility sentimental significant social Sociology spirit stimulation stoicism suggests taste tendency theodicy theory thought tradition typically University Press utilitarian Veblen wants Weber whilst York
References to this book
Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture Professor Roland Robertson No preview available - 1992 |