Bread and Circuses: Alcohol and Other Drugs on the Job

by Patrick Brantlinger

Book Overview

Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the theorists of the Frankfurt Institute, down to Marshall McLuhan and Daniel Bell, Brantlinger considers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801493382
• ISBN13: 9780801493386
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher