Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World by Daniel Horowitz

Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America

Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World

Daniel Horowitz

491 pages hardcover

1 edition

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How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the essence of a vibrant consumer culture? The New Yo...

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