Luxury Philosophy

by John Armitage

Book Overview

Luxury has been associated with superficiality, consumerism and meaninglessness throughout the history of serious philosophical thought. How could something so obviously about the external possibly be existentially significant or even a profound concept? Luxury Philosophy carves out alternative modes of understanding the luxurious arguing that the negative characterization by 18th- and 19th-century philosophers of luxury as dissatisfaction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350414840
• ISBN13: 9781350414846
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"