On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, sam binkley wrote:
> Folks:
>
> does anyone have anything to say about Foucault and consumerism and
> ethical life?
It feels awkward to write this, but I just published a Foucaultian
analysis of consumer culture in the late eighteenth century. One
particular wing of the Enlgihtenment understood bourgeois fashion as a
mode of self-disciplining. Anyway I go on about at some length. The book
is called "The Tyranny of ELegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Age of
Goethe" and its published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
> Folks:
>
> does anyone have anything to say about Foucault and consumerism and
> ethical life?
It feels awkward to write this, but I just published a Foucaultian
analysis of consumer culture in the late eighteenth century. One
particular wing of the Enlgihtenment understood bourgeois fashion as a
mode of self-disciplining. Anyway I go on about at some length. The book
is called "The Tyranny of ELegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Age of
Goethe" and its published by Johns Hopkins University Press.