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Con$umed how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole Benjamin R. Barber

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, NY [u.a.] Norton c 2007Edition: 1. edDescription: X, 406 S. 25 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
Carrier type:
  • Band
ISBN:
  • 0393049612
  • 9780393049619
Other title:
  • Consumed
  • Consumed
  • Con $umed
  • How markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 339.4/70973 22
LOC classification:
  • HC110.C6
Other classification:
  • 7,26
  • MS 1290
  • MS 5560
  • CW 7500
  • 83.05
  • 71.42
  • 15.87
Online resources:
Contents:
Summary: The birth of consumers. Capitalism triumphant and the infantilist ethos ; From protestantism to puerility -- The eclipse of citizens. Infantilizing consumers: the coming of kidults ; Privatizing citizens: the making of civic schizophrenia ; Branding identities: the loss of meaning ; Totalizing society: the end of diversity -- The fate of citizens. Resisting consumerism: can capitalism cure itself? ; Overcoming civic schizophrenia: restoring citizenship in a world of interdependence
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
single unit book single unit book HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks F (Affiliated) F:HC110.C6 B324 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2023-2237

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-381) and index

The birth of consumers. Capitalism triumphant and the infantilist ethos ; From protestantism to puerility -- The eclipse of citizens. Infantilizing consumers: the coming of kidults ; Privatizing citizens: the making of civic schizophrenia ; Branding identities: the loss of meaning ; Totalizing society: the end of diversity -- The fate of citizens. Resisting consumerism: can capitalism cure itself? ; Overcoming civic schizophrenia: restoring citizenship in a world of interdependence

The birth of consumers. Capitalism triumphant and the infantilist ethos ; From protestantism to puerility -- The eclipse of citizens. Infantilizing consumers: the coming of kidults ; Privatizing citizens: the making of civic schizophrenia ; Branding identities: the loss of meaning ; Totalizing society: the end of diversity -- The fate of citizens. Resisting consumerism: can capitalism cure itself? ; Overcoming civic schizophrenia: restoring citizenship in a world of interdependence

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