The pursuit of pleasure overcoming a civilizational challenge

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  • Author: Dallan, Arsen
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    Recorded Books, Inc.

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    Dallakyan, Karlen

    Summary:

    This important book unveils how the pleasure principle has taken humanity hostage to the powers of branding and consumerism, steering our most basic desires. Radically re-evaluating the notion of pleasure and arguing for a deep societal change, it shows the way to a new humanist culture.

    Genre: Psychology
    Original Publisher: New York , Columbia University Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9783838269504

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Recorded Books, Inc.

Dallakyan, Karlen

Abstract

This important book unveils how the pleasure principle has taken humanity hostage to the powers of branding and consumerism, steering our most basic desires. Radically re-evaluating the notion of pleasure and arguing for a deep societal change, it shows the way to a new humanist culture.

Genre
Psychology
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New York

Columbia University Press

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