The Production of Consumers and the Formation of Desire: A Neo-Thomist Perspective
Author:   Christine Darr
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
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9781978707054


Pages:   142
Publication Date:   15 February 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Christine Darr
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.395kg
ISBN:  

9781978707054


ISBN 10:   1978707053
Pages:   142
Publication Date:   15 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Recent Christian Ethical Reflection on “Consumerism” 2. Human Desire in a Consumerist Culture 3. Practice, Advertising, and the American Dream 4. Cultivating Virtue within American Capitalism 5. Consumer Practice as a Possible School for Virtue

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For those rightly concerned with the ways consumerism deforms desire, Christine Darr gives us something worth consuming - a wonderful treatment of the habits of consumption and how they interact with habits of character. However, much more than and certainly far more helpful than a simple diatribe, Darr's excavation of how desire is formed and shaped in pursuit of the American Dream - in conversation with the likes of Aquinas, Bourdieu and MacIntyre - gives the reader important tools for becoming a more reflective, and one hopes, freer and more responsible consumer. In this regard, the treatments of the virtue temperance and the practice of cooking are gems. -- Daniel M. Bell, Jr., Utah Valley University


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Christine Darr is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Dubuque.

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