Material Culture and Mass Consumerism

Preface vii

Part I Objectification 1

1 Introduction 3

2 Hegel and Objectification 19

3 Marx: Objectification as Rupture 34

4 Munn: Objectification as Culture 50

5 Simmel: Objectification as Modernity 68

Part II Material Culture 83

6 The Humility of Objects 85

7 Artefacts in their Contexts 109

Part III Mass Consumption 131

8 The Study of Consumption 133

9 Object Domains, Ideology and Interests 158

10 Towards a Theory of Consumption 178

References 219

Index 233