Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… Image ‘Title page of Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees’, Wikimedia Commons, 1714. Abstract Luxury has always been difficult to define. The … McKendrick even claims a ‘consumer revolution’. If luxury was often coded as pernicious and immoral, some thinkers (e.g. Mandeville) provocatively praised its merits for the community and its positive impact on employment and free trade. … Press, 2007), p. 28-31. Philosophy Among the advocates and opponents of luxury, two philosophers stand out: Bernard Mandeville and David Hume, who both link luxury to community and human interaction. Many British readers had obtained …
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