Authors:Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss, Werner Abraham,
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: studies, language, companion, series, emergence, historical, determination, typology, context, constraints, nominal
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 2007-08-23
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 9027230994
ISBN-13: 9789027230997

Author: William Leiss
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: thumb, technology
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 1990-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0773507485
ISBN-13: 9780773507487

From the introduction: "Standing at the threshold of modern times, Francis Bacon saw in experimental science and technological innovation the keys to humanity’s future. Human history to that point, he thought, was an endlessly repeated cycle of despair and false hopes. The false hopes were fed by the old illusion that a few cheap tricks and the right magical formulas would unlock nature’s treasury where unlimited wealth and power lay. The despair arose from humanity’s seeming inability to escape from subjection to the natural forces that periodically visited famine, disease,

Author: William Leiss
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: needs, commodities, problem, essay, satisfaction, limits
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1988-09
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0773506888
ISBN-13: 9780773506886

Consumerism and capitalist and socialist industry have reached the point where state power is legitimatized by its ability to increase the number of commodities. A unique culture has been created in which marketing is the main social bond. Values no longer shape and condition needs, wants, desires, or preferences. Leiss draws on economics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology to show the vagueness of our thought on the relation between nature and culture, desire and reason, needs and commodities. This book raises serious, vital questions for all those concerned about the future of our pre

Authors:L. Salter, W. Leiss, Edwin Levy,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: science, ethics, policy, environmental, making, scientists, mandated, standards
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 1988-07-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1556080778
ISBN-13: 9781556080777

Authors:William Leiss, Stephen Kline, Sut Jhally, Jacqueli
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: products, images, persons, advertising, communication, social
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 1990-07-27
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0415903548
ISBN-13: 9780415903547

Now available in a significantly updated second edition featuring two new chapters, Social Communication in Advertising remains the most comprehensive historical study of advertising and its function within contemporary society. It traces advertising’s influence within three key social domains: the new commodities industry; popular culture; and the mass media which manages the constellation of images that unifies all three.

Authors:Elisabeth Kraus, Elisabeth Kraus, Carolin Auer,
Publisher: Camden House
Keywords: north, american, literature, culture, studies, european, america, usa, popular, media, simulacrum
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 1999-12-27
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1571131876
ISBN-13: 9781571131874

This collection of original essays is a response to the paradigm shift that has taken place in cultural studies in the wake of postmodernism and poststructuralism. Such concepts as ’truth’ or ’reality’ have been increasingly called into question, since the realization that our experience of ’the real’ is always mediated through an ’empire of signs,’ as Roland Barthes put it. After a predominantly optimistic evaluation of the effects of the media in the 1960s (by Marshall McLuhan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and others), a growing awareness of the t

Authors:Elisabeth Nemeth, Elisabeth Nemeth, Stefan W. Schmit
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: circle, institute, yearbook, vienna, context, neuraths, economics, otto
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-06-02
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 1402069049
ISBN-13: 9781402069048

Otto Neurath (1882-1945) was a highly unorthodox thinker both in philosophy and economics. He proposed a radically expanded scope of economic analysis that would facilitate a comparative and systematic study of the impact of a great variety of economic and political measures on a population s well-being. Neurath regarded the controversial and widely misunderstood concept of calculation in kind as an indispensable instrument for anyone (economist or politician) who sought to analyze economic relationships from a wider perspective than that of price formation under market conditions. What is the