Consumerism and capitalist and socialist industry have reached the point where state power is legitimatized by its ability to increase the number of commodities. A unique culture has been created in which marketing is the main social bond. Values no longer shape and condition needs, wants, desires, or preferences.
Leiss draws on economics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology to show the vagueness of our thought on the relation between nature and culture, desire and reason, needs and commodities. This book raises serious, vital questions for all those concerned about the future of our present society.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography: p. [147]-155
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 333.8
- General Note
- Includes index First published: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0773506888 9780773561922
- LCCN
- HF1051
- LCCN Item number
- L45 1988eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xx, 163 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00204567 (OCoLC)191818984 (CaOOCEL)407465
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Introduction 24
- PART ONE: EXAMINATION 32
- The individual 34
- Society 49
- Non-human nature 57
- PART TWO: DIAGNOSIS 68
- Needs 70
- Commodities 92
- The double ambiguity 113
- PART THREE: PROGNOSIS 116
- Toward an alternative setting for human needs 118
- The conserver society 125
- The needs of non-human nature 134
- Other satisfactions? 145
- Notes 156
- Works cited 168
- Acknowledgments 178
- Index 182
- A 182
- B 182
- C 182
- D 182
- E 182
- F 182
- G 182
- H 182
- I 182
- J 183
- K 183
- L 183
- M 183
- N 183
- P 183
- R 183
- S 183
- T 183
- U 184
- V 184
- W 184
- Z 184
