The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation

ISBN: 9780521466912 出版年：1994 页码：290 Christopher J Berry Cambridge University Press

Part I. Preliminary Essay: 1. Luxury goods Part II. The Classical Paradigm: 2. The platonic prelude 3. The Roman response 4. The Christian contribution Part III. The Transition to Modernity: 5. The de-moralisation of luxury 6. The eighteenth-century debate 7. The historicity of needs Part IV. Politics, Needs and Desires: 8. Luxury and the politics of needs and desires 9. Luxury, necessity and social identity.