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Explore the complex relationship between modern society and consumer behavior in Addictive Consumption: Capitalism, Modernity and Excess. In this book, Gerda Reith examines key theoretical concepts within the sociology of consumption to understand how our habits shape our world. By looking at how understandings of consumption problems change over time, the text provides insight into wider social and political contexts. This work uses the perspectives of thinkers like Foucault, Marx, and Bataille to investigate how identity and desire are formed through what we buy. Reith looks at the tension between excess and control, as well as the boundaries between reason and disorder. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of how our current concept of normal consumption developed through historical efforts to define and regulate behavior. This book is a significant resource for those studying the sociological impact of capitalism and the evolving nature of modern excess.

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Examines key theoretical concepts in the sociology of consumption through a scholarly lens.

Investigates how changing views on consumption problems reflect broader social and political contexts.

Uses the ideas of Foucault, Marx, and Bataille to provide deep theoretical insight.

Explores the connections between consumption and addiction to study identity and desire.

Analyzes the relationship between excess and control and the balance of reason and disorder.

Assesses the historical development of what is considered normal consumption in modern society.

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31 July 2016
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30 October 2006

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