The Idea of Luxury
A Conceptual and Historical Investigation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23398999 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher J Berry (0000-0002-3512-3604, University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Publication date | 1994-06-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Idea of Luxury (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511558368 |
| OpenAlex | W4245197416 |
| Open Library | OL34459252M |
| ISBN | 9780511558368 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 180 |
In this far-ranging and innovative study Christopher Berry explores the meanings and ramifications of the idea of luxury. Insights from political theory, philosophy and intellectual history are utilised in a sophisticated conceptual analysis that is complemented by a series of specific historical investigations. Dr Berry suggests that the value attached to luxury is a crucial component in any society's self-understanding, and shows how luxury has changed from being essentially a negative term, threatening social virtue, to a guileless ploy supporting consumption. His analytic focus upon the interplay between the notions of need and desire suggests that luxuries fall into four categories - sustenance, shelter, clothing and leisure - and these are exemplified in sources as diverse as classical philosophy and contemporary advertising.
Aesthetics · Art · Clothing · Consumption (sociology) · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sustenance · Value (mathematics) · Virtue · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory · History · Luxury
Archaeologies of Island Melanesia
Sustainability in the Consumption of Luxury Products
La nascita e lo sviluppo del nesso tryphé-decadenza nella storiografia ellenistica
The Right to Dress
The Philosophical Progress of Hume's Essays
Luxury
Free Labor vs Slave Labor
The Early Roman Empire
The Early Roman Empire
Regulating Excess
Images
Race, Clothing and Identity
‘Frugality’, Economy and Society in Archaic Rome (Late Seventh to Early Fourth Century BCE)
Scepticism, priestcraft, and toleration
The Early Roman Empire
The World through Roman Eyes
Riddles
Defending the Right to Dress
Law and Economic Institutions
Classical Greece
Early Iron Age Greece
Myth
Animals
Early Rome and Italy
Economy
Polytheism
Sartorial Sorting in the Colonial Caribbean and North America
Hellenistic Greece and Western Asia Minor
First Questions
Household and Gender
Frugality, Building, and Heirlooms in an Age of Social Mobility
The Late Republic
Sacrifice
‘Splendour and Magnificence’
Rent Control Measures in the 40s BCE
Signs
Space
Comparison
Archaic Greece
The Early Roman Empire
Sumptuary Laws in Portugal and its Empire from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Witches
Sumptuary Laws in Precolonial West Africa
Classical Greece
The Transition to Late Antiquity
Classical Greece
For Those Who Curse the Candle
The Political Philosophy of Needs
Signaling Status with Luxury Goods
The Unhealthy = Tasty Intuition and Its Effects on Taste Inferences, Enjoyment, and Choice of Food Products
Earning the Right to Indulge
Delight by Design
Value‐based segmentation of luxury consumption behavior
The Persian Near East
David Hume's Account of Luxury
Cameralism and the sciences of the state
Political languages of the French Revolution
Encyclopedias and the diffusion of knowledge
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
Social contract theory and its critics
The comparative study of regimes and societies
Negotiating Innovation in a Market Economy
The Ends of Empire
Commerce, militarism and luxury
Consumerism as a Civilizing Process
Oikonomia Redefined
Political Strategies for Maintaining Power
Snuggling with your identity
Lüksle Ve Lükse Karşi
The Uneventful Reception of Mandeville’s Ideas in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic, or the Mysterious Case of the Missing Outrage
Smith and Hume at war
Taste formation in Classical Political Economy
Limits to wealth in the history of Western philosophy
Is luxury tax justifiable
Forsvar for luksus i Danmark-Norge ca. 1750–1800
Linguistic Landscape and Authenticity in a Japanese Supermarket in Singapore
The pragmatics of luxury
Images of Baetica. The ambivalent hispanic reception of Les Aventures de Télémaque
Fur and Exotic Animal Materials
What Is Luxury
A Lack of Luxury? Contemporary Luxury Fashion in Sri Lanka
An Exploration of Children’s Understanding of Luxury
Festivities at Court
When Eroticism Makes Luxury Fashion Brands Fly
Luxury and Ignorance
A New Luxury
Sacred and Treasured Luxury
“Men Feel Swell in…” 1 Men’s Underwear
Ticking Boxes
What Is Luxury
Luxury Unveiled
The Idea of Luxury
Standard and Supremely Smart
An Embarrassment of Riches and a Surplus of Shame
Pleasure, Happiness and Romanticism
A strategic process to anticipate the digital blurring of urban work and leisure
Homosexuality between Men in Britain since the Eighteenth Century
István Hont and political theory
Hume and Smith studies after Forbes and Trevor-Roper
Luxury consumption as identity markers in Tallinn
| Unique citing works | 180 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,81 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 177 |