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Gagnier, Regenia

The insatiability of human wants : economics and aesthetics in market society / Regenia Gagnier - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000. - viii, 255 pages ; 24 cm

1. On the Insatiability of Human Wants: Economic and Aesthetic "Man" --
2. Is Market Society the Fin of History?: Market Utopias and Dystopias from Babbage to Schreiner --
3. Modernity and Progress toward Individualism in Economics and Aesthetics --
4. Production, Reproduction, and Pleasure in Victorian Aesthetics --
5. Practical Aesthetics: Rolfe, Wilde, and New Women at the Fin de Siecle --
6. Practical Aesthetics II: On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in the 1980s --
7. Practical Aesthetics III: Homelessness as an "Aesthetic Issue" --
App. Taste, or Sex and Class as Culture.

This work begins during a key transitional moment in aesthetic and economic theory, 1871, when both disciplines underwent a turn from production to consumption models. The author traces the shift in Western thought from models of production to consumption

ISBN: 9780226278544

Publisher. No.: International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Economics
Economics and literature.
Economic history -- 19th century.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Culture -- Economic aspects.

Dewey Class. No.: 330.1 GAG