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Born to Buy

Born to Buy more books like this

by Juliet B Schor

Ads targeted at kids are virtually everywhere - in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at Girl Scout meetings, slumber parties, and the playground. Product placement and other innovations have introduced more subtle advertising to movies and television. Drawing on her own survey research and unprecedented access to the advertising ...

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The German Ideology

The German Ideology more books like this

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

This edition makes easily accessible the most important parts of Marx's and Engels's major early philosophical work, "The German Ideology", a text of key importance for students.

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The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World

The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World more books like this

by Owen Flanagan

A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live in a meaningful way - how to live a life that really matters - even as a finite material being living in a material world.If consciousness is "the hard problem" in mind science - explaining how the amazing private world ...

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The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity more books like this

by Slavoj Zizek, Slavoj A1/2ia3/4ek

In this volume Slavoj Zizek offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's spirituality - New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian Judaism - and then tries to redeem the "materialist" kernel of Christianity. His reading ...

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Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole more books like this

by Benjamin R Barber

"Consumed" offers a portrait of how adults are infantilised in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell, consumer capitalism specialises today in the manufacture not of goods but of needs. This provocative culmination of ...

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The High Price of Materialism

The High Price of Materialism more books like this

by Tim Kasser

In this volume, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and clothing, further material gains do little to improve our well-being. Kasser goes beyond these ...

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Critique of dialectical reason, theory of practical ensembles

Critique of dialectical reason, theory of practical ensembles more books like this

by Jean Paul Sartre

At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result was the Critique of Dialectical Reason, an intellectual masterpiece of the twentieth century, now republished in two volumes with major original introductions by Fredric Jameson. In it, Sartre set out the ...

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Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism

Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism more books like this

by Professor James B Twitchell

This critique of marketing and advertising chronicles America's preoccupation with materialism. Arguing that marketing firms at the end of the '90s hold the same power as the Catholic Church did during the Renaissance, the author argues that celebrity spokespersons such as Michael Jordon act as marketing "priests," while television commercials ...

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The ideology of power and the power of ideology

The ideology of power and the power of ideology more books like this

by Professor Goran Therborn

Few concepts have been so intensely discussed or so widely sponsored as that of 'ideology'. Whether read as the expression of social classes or attributed a material independence and efficacy, whether devalued as false and non-scientific or asserted as the necessary element of social practice, 'ideology' has become an ineluctable conceptual ...

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Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture

Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture more books like this

by Juliet B Schor

Over the last fifteen years children's spending power has mushroomed to an estimated USD30 billion in direct purchases and another USD600 billion of influence over parental purchases. Advertising and marketing has exploded alongside expenditures and now totals more than USD12 billion a year. Ads targeted at children are virtually everywhere - in ...

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Culture and practical reason more books like this

by Marshall David Sahlins

"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter ...

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Materialism and empirio-criticism, critical comments on a reactionary philosophy more books like this

by Vladimir Ilch Lenin

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Critique of Dialectical Reason more books like this

by Jean-Paul Sartre, Quintin Hoare (Translator)

Sartre's fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought, an intellectual masterpiece of the twentieth century with original introduction by Fredric Jameson. A theory of history, an analysis of class struggle and a philosophy of action, this work is an intellectual masterpiece of the twentieth century, republished in two volumes ...

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Anti-Duhring: Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science more books like this

by Friedrich Engels

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Toy Medium more books like this

by Daniel Newton Tiffany

What begins with an unlikely collection of unrelated phenomena - mechanical dolls, weather, atoms, lyric poetry - blossoms in the course of "Toy Medium" into a meditation on one of Western philosophy's biggest puzzles: the relation of mind and matter. What is the role of the imagination in defining material substance? In a study of the poetics ...

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Dematerializing: Taming the Power of Possessions more books like this

by Jane Hammerslough

An insightful look at the misplaced faith we place in things, and meaningful advice on achieving material and emotional well-being. Can the perfect new couch in your family room make for great times with your family? Does a diamond that costs two months' salary mean that love will last forever? In this era of high expectations and "low monthly ...

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Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back more books like this

by Douglas Rushkoff

In this captivating book, cultural theorist Rushkoff reveals how corporations have come to dominate all aspects of life--including our inner lives--and what to do about it. In tracing the roots of corporatism from the Renaissance to today, Rushkoff reveals the way it supplanted social interaction and local commerce and came to be regarded as a pre ...

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The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times more books like this

by Rene? Guenon

The Reign of Quantity gives a concise but comprehensive view of the present state of affairs in the world, as it appears from the point of view of the 'ancient wisdom', formerly common both to the East and to the West, but now almost entirely lost sight of. The author indicates with his fabled clarity and directness the precise nature of the ...

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A Purse-Driven Christmas: So, What Did You Get Me? more books like this

by Anita Renfroe

Renfroe presents a light-hearted look at the fun, challenges, and just plain insanity of the most wonderful time of the year.

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Search for a Method more books like this

by Jean Paul Sarte, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E Barnes (Translator)

'Search for a Method' is a separate and introductory essay published together with 'Critique of Dialectical Reason'. It is the search for a method by which the existentialist Marxist may hope to understand both individual persons and history.

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Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism more books like this

by James O'Connor, PH.D. (Editor)

Economic growth since the Industrial Revolution has been achieved at great cost both to the natural environment and to the autonomy of communities. What can a Marxist perspective contribute to understanding this disturbing legacy, and mitigating its impact on future generations? Social theorist James O'Connor demonstrates how the policies and ...

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Rolling Away the Stone: Mary Baker Eddy's Challenge to Materialism more books like this

by Stephen Gottschalk

"Rolling Away the Stone" is a richly detailed account of the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a major religious thinker whose character and achievement are just beginning to be understood. This is the first book-length discussion of Eddy to make full use of the resources of the Mary Baker Eddy Collection in Boston. It focuses on ...

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Late Marxism: Adorno or the Persistence of the Dialectic more books like this

by Professor Fredric Jameson

Theodor Adorno is widely recognized as one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century, as a foremost cultural critic and philosopher, and one of the most important figures in the Frankfurt School and Western Marxism more generally. And yet, Adorno's reputation has suffered from accusations about his alleged pessimism and, even worse, from ...

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The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life more books like this

by Barry Schwartz

This text argues that market freedom is undermining much that is good in life and offers ways to put an end to this erosion. People value their freedom, family, friends, work, education, health and leisure - the things that are regarded as the best things in life. However, the pressure to satisfy both the "bottom line" and the seemingly insatiable ...

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Subject to History: Ideology, Class, Gender more books like this

by David Simpson

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