Titlebook: Consumption and Consumer Society ; The Craft Consumer a Colin Campbell Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exc

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Consumption and the Rhetorics of Need and Want, and want (desire). These rhetorics relate to contrasting models of human action with associated ideologies. The need rhetoric has its origin in a Puritan-inspired utilitarian philosophy of comfort and satisfaction, whilst the want or desire rhetoric has its origin in a Romantic-inspired philosophy

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I Shop Therefore I Know That I Am: The Metaphysical Basis of Modern Consumerism,?’ Whilst one may imagine, at first glance, that such an apparently mundane activity could not possibly be connected with metaphysical issues, there is an obvious link with the question of identity. However, whilst postmodern thought suggests that consumer behaviour involves a search for identity, w

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The Craft Consumer: Culture, Craft and Consumption in a Postmodern Society,n additional image of the consumer to set alongside those of ‘the dupe’, ‘the rational hero’ and the ‘postmodern identity seeker’. The term ‘craft’ is used to refer to consumption activity in which the ‘product’ concerned is essentially ‘both made and designed by the same person’ and to which the co

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A Matter of Necessity: Reflections on Need and Want in a Time of Lockdown, basic human needs and thus the distinction between these and ‘false needs’ or wants. It is argued that there are two main approaches to the determination of need, one that focuses on the extent to which a person’s standard of living falls below the social norm and one in which the determination of

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23395-2ditional explanation for this desire as exemplified in the theories of Simmel and Veblen. The work of these two men is often conflated to constitute a Simmel-Veblen model which assumes that ideas of what is fashionable ‘trickle down’ from superior to inferior classes in society while consumption act

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23395-2rehensible motives as greed, pride or envy. These theories are largely unsubstantiated and fail to address the distinctive features of modern consumption, such as the apparent insatiability of wants and the preference for the novel over the familiar. A more plausible view of consumerism regards it a

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23545-1eory’ has never been tested. It is suggested that the reason for this lies in the difficulty of determining the criterion that defines the phenomenon, a difficulty that derives from Veblen’s failure to integrate two contrasting conceptual formulations. These are, first, an interpretive or subjective

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