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The insatiability of human wants : economics and aesthetics in market society / Regenia Gagnier

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.Description: viii, 255 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226278544
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 330.1 GAG
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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
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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

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