Production of Consumers and the Formation of Desire - A Neo-Thomist Perspective

Many critiques of consumerism inadequately consider the complex interactions between individuals, their desires, and their social practices. Christine Darr provides an analysis of desire within consumer culture by integrating insights from moral theology and sociology and offers intellectual resources for more deliberate decision-making.

List of contents

1. Recent Christian Ethical Reflection on "Consumerism"
2. Human Desire in a Consumerist Culture
3. Practice, Advertising, and the American Dream
4. Cultivating Virtue within American Capitalism
5. Consumer Practice as a Possible School for Virtue

About the author

Christine Darr is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Dubuque.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Darr
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2023
• EAN: 9781978707054
• ISBN: 978-1-978707-05-4
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Capitalism, RELIGION / Ethics, RELIGION / Theology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, Theology, Economic systems & structures, Religious ethics