Consuming Pleasures : : Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World / / Daniel Horowitz.

How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the essence of a vibrant consumer culture? The New York intellectuals of the 1930s rejected any serious or...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (504 p.) :; 15 illus.
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