John O'Shaughnessy, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy

The Undermining of Beliefs in the Autonomy and Rationality of Consumers (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines modern consumption, focusing on concepts of autonomy and rationality. In recent years, conventional ideas of 'free will' have come under attack in the context of consumer choice and similarly, postmodernists have sabotaged the very notion of consumer rationality. O Shaughnessy and O'Shaughnessy adopt a moderating perspective, rev

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135978266
• Artikelnr.: 38403801

Autorenporträt

John O'Shaughnessy is Emeritus Professor of Business at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York.

Nicholas O'Shaughnessy is Professor of Marketing and Communications at Queen Mary, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Renewed Interest in the Unconscious and Free Will - A Progress
Report for Marketing 1. The Relegation of Free Choice and Free Will 2. The
Dominance of the Adaptive Unconscious Part 2: Postmodernism: The Attack on
all Aspects of Modernity and Rationality 3. The Claims made by
Postmodernists 4. Central Philosophical Assertions of Postmodernism