AuthorJean Baudrillard1929–2007The Consumer Society: Its Myths and Structures is a book published in 1970 by the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, devoted to consumerism. It is his second book and, together with The System of Objects (1968) and The Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (1972), forms a trilogy in which the author examines capital and consumption from a structuralist perspective.
Themes
ConsumerismMyths of consumptionStructuralismCapital and consumptionCritique of the economy of the sign
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