02429cam a2200289zi 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260200015000670200018000820200018001000240016001180350026001340350013001600400031001730410012002040500024002161000083002402450041003232640054003643000023004185050447004415201098008886500024019869420008020109520106020189990015021241765158920250709142019.0240907s2025 enk b 001 0 eng d a1350414832 a9781350414839 a97813504148468 a60002564117 a(NhCcYBP)om5003910950 a17651589 aNhCcYBPbengerdacNhCcYBP aEnglish 4aBJ1535.L9bA76 2025 aArmitage, Johnd1956-eauthor.0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no0010312610aLuxury philosophy c/ John Armitage. 1aLondon ;aNew York :bBloomsbury Academic,c2025. a207 pages ;c24 cm aLuxury Philosophy: An Introduction — Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Luxury as the Enervation of Virtue — Jean François de Saint-Lambert: The Luxury of Appearances — Karl Marx: Luxury is the Opposite of the Necessary — Emmanuel Levinas: A Philosophy of Voluptuosity — Georges Bataille: Luxury as Expenditure — Theodor W. Adorno: The Dual Character of Luxury — Roland Barthes: Luxury Mythology — Luxury Philosophy Today: A Conclusion. aLuxury has been associated with superficiality, consumerism and meaninglessness throughout the history of serious philosophical thought. How could something so obviously about the external possibly be existentially significant or even a profound concept? Luxury Philosophy carves out alternative modes of understanding the luxurious arguing that the negative characterization by 18th- and 19th-century philosophers of luxury as dissatisfaction or as an evil enjoyed by the idle rich gave way in the 20th century and beyond to more positive, even potentially revolutionary, theories of luxury as voluptuousity, squander, uselessness, and abundance. John Armitage charts the history of continental theories of luxury which embody a wide variety of disciplines and methods, including philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies, revealing the depth of contemporary critical luxury studies. Luxury Philosophy provides profound insights for all those interested in the nature, causes, and principles of sumptuous living and surroundings, knowledge of pleasure, or the values of comfort and desire. 0aLuxuryxPhilosophy. 2lcc 00102lcc4070aTBSbTBSd2025-07-09l0oBJ1535.L9 ARMr2025-07-09t1w2025-07-09y1zSOON AVAILABLE c4846d4846