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_b:Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
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082 _a330.1 GAG
100 _aGagnier, Regenia
245 _aThe insatiability of human wants
_b: economics and aesthetics in market society
_c/ Regenia Gagnier
260 _aChicago
_b: University of Chicago Press,
_c2000.
300 _aviii, 255 pages
_c; 24 cm
365 _b2336
505 _a1. 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.
520 _aThis 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
650 _aEconomics
650 _aEconomics and literature.
650 _aEconomic history -- 19th century.
655 _aCulture -- Economic aspects.
700 _aGagnier, Regenia
942 _cBOOK
999 _c50557
_d50557