Consuming pleasures : intellectuals and popular culture in the postwar world / Daniel Horowitz.

How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the essence of a vibrant consumer culture? The New York intellectuals of the 1930s rejected any serious or...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Horowitz, Daniel, 1938- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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