The limits to satisfaction : an essay on the problem of needs and commodities /
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,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kingston [Ont.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1988.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE: EXAMINATION
- The individual
- Society
- Non-human nature
- PART TWO: DIAGNOSIS
- Needs
- Commodities
- The double ambiguity
- PART THREE: PROGNOSIS
- Toward an alternative setting for human needs
- The conserver society
- The needs of non-human nature
- Other satisfactions?
- Notes
- Works cited
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z