Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Evolution

by James Livingston

Book Overview

The rise of corporate capitalism was a cultural revolution as well as an economic event, according to James Livingston. That revolution resides, he argues, in the fundamental reconstruction of selfhood, or subjectivity, that attends the advent of an 'age of surplus' under corporate auspices. From this standpoint, consumer culture represents a transition to a society in which identities as well as incomes are not necessarily derived from the possession...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807821578
• ISBN13: 9780807821572
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.