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Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
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Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole / Benjamin R. Barber.
ISBN
9780393049619 (hardcover)
0393049612 (hardcover)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
Physical Description
x, 406 p. ; 25 cm.
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Consumed
Con $umed
How markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 08, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-381) and index.
Contents
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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