Scott Doidge

The Anxiety of Ascent (eBook, ePUB)

Middle-Class Narratives in Germany and America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This intriguing book examines Max Weber's disenchantment thesis, engaging with the idea that modern life was to be experienced as a flat procession of mechanical experiences and empty consumer consolations through a study of the lifeways of the middle-class.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351267144
• Artikelnr.: 54177518

Autorenporträt

Scott Doidge is a teaching associate in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 The German Bürgertum
3 Bourgeois decadence
4 Imagining Springfield: the American middle class
5 Mad Men : advertising the American Dream
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index