Culture and Consumption

Sommario

The Dialectic of Consumption: Materialism and Social Control in American History; A More Lasting Subversion— Mary van Kleeck and the Decorous Insurgency of the Social Christian Woman; The Dilemma of Hypermodernity; Addiction and Consciousness: The Banality of Transcendence and Degradation; Jerome Bruner’s Culturalism, Temporal Consciousness, and the Narrative Construal of Reality; Educational Reform and the Antique World; Capitalism and the Threat to Professional Autonomy

Info autore

Gabriel R. Ricci

Riassunto

Following in the tradition of Thorstein Veblen's Higher Learning in America, Lionel S. Lewis has amassed solid evidence to support his conclusions about what leads to success in Scaling the Ivory Tower.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gabriel R. Ricci
• Con la collaborazione di: Paul Gottfried (Editore), Gabriel R. Ricci (Editore), Ricci Gabriel R. (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138521803
• ISBN: 978-1-138-52180-3
• Pagine: 98
• Serie: Religion and Public Life
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History of the Americas, The Americas