Conspicuous Criticism: Tradition, the Individual, and Culture in American Social Thought, from Veblen to Mills

by Christopher Shannon

"The anthropological idea of 'culture' has provided twentieth-century American intellectuals with an ideology for the relentless textualization of everyday life through social-scientific inquiry. In this book I argue that the rise of 'culture' as a mode of critical self-consciousness has fostered a destabilization of received social meanings necessary for the expansion of both consumer capitalism and critical thought itself. Indeed, critical, humanistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801851513
• ISBN13: 9780801851513
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"