Author : Nicholas Xenos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351622919
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Scarcity and Modernity by : Nicholas Xenos
Download or read book Scarcity and Modernity written by Nicholas Xenos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.