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Auteur(s) : Reith, Gerda (1969-....)
Titre(s) : Addictive consumption [Texte imprimé] : capitalism, modernity and excess / Gerda Reith
Publication : Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-177 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 156-172. Index
"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 can tell us about their wider social and political
contexts. Through this, she uses ideas about both consumption and addiction to explore
issues around identity and desire, excess and control and reason and disorder. She
also assesses how our concept of 'normal' consumption has grown out of efforts to
regulate behaviour historically considered as disruptive or deviant, and how in the
contemporary world the 'dark side' of consumption has been medicalised in terms of
addiction, pathology and irrationality. By drawing on case studies of drugs, food
and gambling, the volume demonstrates the ways in which modern practices of consumption
are rooted in historical processes and embedded in geopolitical structures of power.
It not only asks how modern consumer culture came to be in the form it is today, but
also questions what its various manifestations can tell us about wider issues in capitalist
modernity. Addictive Consumption offers a compelling new perspective on the origins,
development and problems of consumption in modern society. The volume's interdisciplinary
profile will appeal to scholars and students in sociology, psychology, history, philosophy
and anthropology."
Sujet(s) : Consommation -- Société
Consommation -- Psychologie
Comportement des consommateurs
Comportement compulsif
Indice(s) Dewey :
339.47 (23e éd.) = Consommation
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415268264 (rel.). - ISBN 0415268265. - ISBN 9780415268271. - ISBN 0415268273.
- ISBN 9780429464447 (erroné). - ISBN 0429464444 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb456013008
Notice n° :
FRBNF45601300
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Table des matières : Introduction: consumer capitalism and addiction ; Luxurious excess: the emergence
of commodity culture ; Industrial modernity: the birth of the addict ; Intensified
consumption and the expansion of addiction ; Drugs: intoxicating consumption ; Food:
embodied consumption ; Gambling: dematerialised consumption ; Afterword