TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baudrillard,Jean
TI  - The consumer society : : myths and structures 
T2  - Tcs series
SN  - 9781473982376 (hardcover : alk. paper)
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Thousand Oaks, CA
PB  - Sage Ltd.
N1  - Part I: The Formal Liturgy of the Object  —  
Chapter 1: Profusion  — 
Chapter 2: The Miraculous Status of Consumption  — 
Chapter 3: The Vicious Circle of Growth  — 
Part II: The Theory of Consumption  — 
Chapter 4: The Social Logic of Consumption  — 
Chapter 5: Towards a Theory of Consumption  — 
Chapter 6: Personalization or the Smallest Marginal Difference  — 
Part III: Mass Media, Sex and Leisure  — 
Chapter 7: Mass-Media Culture  — 
Chapter 8: The Finest Consumer Object: The Body  — 
Chapter 9: The Drama of Leisure or the Impossibility of Wasting One’s Time  — 
Chapter 10: The Mystique of Solicitude  — 
Chapter 11: Anomie in the Affluent Society  — 
Conclusion: On Contemporary Alienation or the End of the Pact with the Devil
N2  - Jean Baudrillard’s classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. The book includes Baudrillard’s most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society. A chapter on the body demonstrates Baudrillard’s extraordinary prescience for flagging vital subjects in contemporary culture long before others. This English translation begins with a new introductory essay
ER  -