Luxury philosophy
Luxury philosophy
Luxury 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.
Luxury, Philosophy, Critical Theory
Armitage, John
19639b0b-0399-4dc6-9369-4d8c1ed77480
20 February 2025
Armitage, John
19639b0b-0399-4dc6-9369-4d8c1ed77480
Armitage, John
(2025)
Luxury philosophy
,
1 ed.
United Kingdom.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 224pp.
Abstract
Luxury 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.
This record has no associated files available for download.
More information
Published date: 20 February 2025
Keywords:
Luxury, Philosophy, Critical Theory
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 494697
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/494697
PURE UUID: 1c8bfbbb-2fdd-4ea8-a62d-b78924eab7c7
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 14 Oct 2024 16:42
Last modified: 15 Oct 2024 01:45
Export record
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics
