The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism New Extended Edition /

• Main Author: Campbell, Colin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2018.
• Series: Cultural Sociology
• Subjects: Culture.; Cultural studies.; Sociology.; Idealism, German.; Motivation research (Marketing).; Psychology.; Sociology of Culture.; Cultural Studies.; Sociological Theory.; German Idealism.; Consumer Behavior.; General Psychology.

Originally published in 1987, Colin Campbell's classic treatise on the sociology of consumption has become one of the most widely cited texts in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and the history of ideas. In the thirty years since its publication, The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of M...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Spirit of Modern Consumerism
• 3. Accounting for the Consumer Revolution in Eighteenth Century England
• 4. The Puzzle of Modern Consumerism
• 5. Traditional and Modern Hedonism
• 6. Modern Autonomous Imaginative Hedonism
• 7. The Romantic Ethic
• 8. The Other Protestant Ethic
• 9. The Ethic of Feeling
• 10. The Aristocratic Ethic
• 11. The Romantic Ethic
• 12. Conclusion.