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Introduction 1 In search of consumption . . . Søren Askegaard and Benoît Heilbrunn PART II Political economy and the quest for value 2 Marx, commodity and consumer culture A. Fuat Fırat 3 Why bother with Nietzsche? James Fitchett 4 Beyond disenchantment: Weber and the search for legitimacy Melanie Wallendorf 5 Karl Polanyi: whence the marketing mind? Dannie Kjeldgaard PART III Anthropology and consumption 6 Marcel Mauss: the gift that moves . . . Eric J. Arnould 7 Thick prescription: notes on the influence of Clifford Geertz on CCT John F. Sherry, Jr. 8 Mary Douglas: consumption codes, meaning structures and classification systems Ian Woodward 9 In defense of cultural economy: Marshall Sahlins Eric J. Arnould PART IV System and structuration 10 Bronislaw Malinowski, or the elementary material and symbolic forms of production, exchange and consumption Dominique Desjeux 11 Claude Lévi-Strauss and the structural fabric of meaning Benoît Heilbrunn 12 Talcott Parsons: structural foundations for cultural sociology Melanie Wallendorf 13 The relevance of consumption in Niklas Luhmann’s theory of society Kai-Uwe Hellmann and Marius K. Luedicke PART V Identity trajectories 14 Mind, self and consumption: George Herbert Mead Cele Otnes 15 Sartre’s insights for identity, desire, the gift and posthumanism Russell Belk 16 Paul Ricoeur, vigil of the self Benoît Heilbrunn 17 Habermas: reigniting enlightenment reason Jeff B. Murray PART VI Civilization and history 18 Remembering Walter Benjamin, or the death of the last intellectual  Robert Kozinets 19 Norbert Elias: figurations and consumption Robin Canniford 20 Braudel’s notions of time, capitalism and market  Eminegül Karababa PART VII The language of commodities 21 Shopping with Charles Peirce: from sign meaning to sign degeneracy in the marketplace Kent Grayson 22 Roland Barthes: the (anti-)structuralist Luca M. Visconti 23 Jean Baudrillard: the Nietzsche of our times(?) Per Østergaard (with a little help from his friends) 24 Bruno Latour: philosopher of togetherness in action Domen Bajde PART VIII Power games 197 25 Adorno, Horkheimer and the audacity of reason  Jeff B. Murray 26 Pierre Bourdieu: luminary or elitist? Capital and the project of consumption Christina Goulding 27 Producing Foucauldians: consumer culture theory and the analytics of power 28 De Certeau: a thinker of the everyday Véronique Cova and Nil Özçağlar-Toulouse 29 Judith Butler: gender performativity and heterosexual hegemony Pauline Maclaran PART IX The imaginary and humanity  30 Freud the scientist? John Desmond 31 The consumer as sovereign: the general economy of Georges Bataille Christian Jantzen 32 Edgar Morin: the uniduality of the magical and the real  Søren Askegaard 33 Beyond reductionism, constructivism and arbitrary sampling in consumer research thanks to Castoriadis  Dominique Bouchet 34 Ž ižek: a pervert’s guide to the libidinal narcissistic economy  Alan Bradshaw PART X Postscript 35 To ERR is human: on failing to read (and forgetting to remember) the classics Stephen Brown