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

Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World

Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America

Daniel Horowitz

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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 Yo...

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