Scarcity and Modernity Contributor(s): Xenos, Nicholas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138081779 ISBN-13: 9781138081772 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $138.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
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BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - Natural Resource Extraction - Business & Economics | Environmental Economics - Business & Economics | Economics - General |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Environmental and Natural Resour |
Physical Information: 134 pages |
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Publisher Description: Originally published in 1989. In this book Nicholas Xenos argues that the assumption that scarcity is a universal human condition is far from universal but rather a product of western influence. Informed by the work of Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Girard, and Sahlins, this historical narrative of scarcity incorporates interpretations of texts and practices from eighteenth-century London to contemporary New York. Lucid and elegant in style, Scarcity and Modernity will appear to those with interests in social and political thought and cultural criticism. |