1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910208847203321

Autore

Clammer J. R.

Titolo

Contemporary urban Japan : a sociology of consumption / / John Clammer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishers, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

9786611840624

1-281-84062-9

0-470-71277-5

0-470-71256-2

1-4443-9927-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Collana

Studies in urban and social change

Disciplina

307.760952

Soggetti

Sociology, Urban - Japan

City and town life - Japan

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects - Japan

Consumer behavior - Japan

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""series""; ""Title page""; ""copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1: Approaching Japan through the Study of Consumption""; ""JAPAN AND CONSUMPTION""; ""THINKING THROUGH JAPANESE CONSUMPTION""; ""THE STRUCTURE OF JAPANESE CONSUMPTION""; ""THE POWER OF THE GIFT""; ""CONSUMPTION AND THE ORGANIZATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE""; ""2: Consumption and Urban Cultures in the Japanese City""; ""THE URBAN CONTEXT OF CONSUMPTION""; ""URBAN SOCIOLOGY AND JAPANESE SOCIETY""; ""THE SOCIOLOGY OF URBAN CONSUMPTION""; ""3: The Context of Desire: The Political Economy of Consumption""

""THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FRAME""""THE PRAXIS OF CONSUMPTION""; ""4: Shopping and the Social Self""; ""THE ECOLOGY OF TASTE""; ""CHOICE AND BEING""; ""5: Gender, Class and the



Internationalization of Consumption""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE SETTING""; ""THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SHOPPING""; ""THE INTERNATIONALIZING OF CONSUMPTION AND THE REINFORCEMENT OF JAPANESE IDENTITY""; ""GLASS, CONSUMPTION AND GENDER""; ""6: Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction and Representation of the Body""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""READING JAPANESE MAGAZINES""; ""READING THE IMAGES""

""JAPANESE BODIES/CULTURAL THEORY""""JAPAN, CONSUMPTION AND THEORIES OF BODY""; ""THE BODY? MEDIA AND CONSUMPTION""; ""TOWARDS A CONCLUSION""; ""7: Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of the Imagination in Japanese Tourism""; ""TOWARDS A CONCLUSION""; ""TOWARDS A CONCLUSION""; ""8 Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan""; ""IDENTITY, MODERNITY, CONSUMPTION""; ""COMMODITY, AESTHETICS AND EVERYDAY LIFE""; ""THE COMMODITY AND THE GIFT CULTURE""; ""References""; ""Index""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822038603321

Autore

Bietenholz Peter G.

Titolo

Encounters with a radical Erasmus : Erasmus' work as a source of radical thought in Early modern Europe / / Peter G. Bietenholz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4426-9317-7

1-4426-8799-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Erasmus studies

Disciplina

303.48/4094

Soggetti

Radicalism - Europe - History - 16th century

Radicalism - Europe - History - 17th century

Authors and readers - Europe - History - 16th century

Authors and readers - Europe - History - 17th century

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Sebastian Franck scrutinizes Erasmus' Annotationes to the New Testament -- Mining antitrinitarian ore from Erasmus' New Testament -- Peace and war according to Erasmus' New Testment -- The Castello circle : religious toleration and radical reasoning -- Erasmus, his mistress folly, and the garden of Epicurus -- Doctoring the truth : Cardano's Erasmian physic for the Libertins -- Epicureanism, scepticism, and libertinage in early modern France -- Radical echoes of Erasmus in seventeenth-century England -- The taste of Erasmian spice in some classics of early modern literature -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

An engaging look at Erasmus' theological, philosophical and socio-political influence, Encounters with a Radical Erasmus will prove useful to scholars of humanism, theology, the Reformation and Renaissance.