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The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover Thrift) by: Thorstein Veblen City Travel Guides Price: £3.00 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 305.5234 EAN: 9780486280622 ISBN: 0486280624 Label: Dover Publications Inc. Manufacturer: Dover Publications Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 1994-08 Publisher: Dover Publications Inc. Studio: Dover Publications Inc. Sales Rank: 64924 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A classic analysis of how the West sees moneyThis may not be a book to read for recreation, unless you like 1890s verbal locutions, but there are other reasons to read it. The emergence of the economic analysis of Western society might intrigue you. You might discover the origins of such still useful terms as 'leisure class' and 'conspicuous consumption,' among others. You might be curious about author Thorstein Veblen's status-conscious, anachronistic world of working men and idle wives, which reflects upper-class society in his day. Published in 1899, this is a classic in sociology and economic literature, although it is a veritable dreadnought of density. It discusses property, ownership, status and leisure in a turn-of-the-last-century American context. Though scholars call it a 'satire,' ... Read More: Rating: - A CLASSIC ABOUT CONSUMERISMThis opus by Veblen exposes the real meaning of the pecuniary advancement of the working and merchant classes, and the formation of elites based mostly upon money and asset valuation. The transfiguration of the traditional social and individual ethical values that this phenomenon produced, is portraited with clarity and sarcastic intelligence by the author in the book, first published in 1899. Now a classic of economic theory, as well as a text book of social science, it describes the tendencies of consumerism, leisure and the "materialization" of the ideals of the aspiring new princes (or noveau rich) of society. Veblen's vibrant satire of the tendency of the modern individual to believe that real accomplishment is all about aquiring a condition ... Read More: Rating:  - The Material Structure of Society Laid Bare.Cynical or 100% Truth? Basically, if you're reading this book you'll probably already have fairly stringent views on the class system and how backstabbing and vainglorious the human race is. Veblen provides perhaps the greatest text on how fatuous the middle classes are in their quest for social advancement and the pathetic bathos they cling to as a means of achieving this. Attitudes derrided, this is a truly ace book that many a richkid hippy anarchist will possess to try and prove they are not being ridiculed in the book. Get it. |
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