Author | : Nicholas Xenos |
File Size | : 50,6 Mb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 19 October 2017 |
ISBN | : 9781351622912 |
Pages | : 130 pages |
Scarcity and Modernity by Nicholas Xenos Book PDF Summary
Originally published in 1989. In this book Nicholas Xenos argues that the assumption that scarcity is a universal human condition is far from universal but rather a product of western influence. Informed by the work of Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Girard, and Sahlins, this historical narrative of scarcity incorporates interpretations of texts and practices from eighteenth-century London to contemporary New York. Lucid and elegant in style, Scarcity and Modernity will appear to those with interests in social and political thought and cultural criticism.