The Criticism of Consumption Alienation by William Leiss

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10.2991/mshsd-17.2018.91How to use a DOI?

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Consumption Alienation William Leiss "Dual needs"

Abstract

Leiss believes that the main expression of the alienation of capitalist society has shifted from labor alienation to consumption alienation, and the fuse of the future social revolution will also occur in the consumption field rather than in the production field. In the study of the alienation of consumption, he carried on the expansion of ecological criticism on the basis of Marcuse's theory of criticizing consumer alienation, especially the capitalist society considering only itself and the nature as the object of use and control, only focus on its own needs to advocate wantonly consumption without regard to the ecological environment of human center. Leiss's understanding of the alienation of consumption is a high consumption behavior based on the "dual needs", under the concept of control nature. The essence of consumer alienation is the dual control of people and nature by the ruling class and Leiss believes that the future social development direction of the harmonious coexistence of man and nature should be the "conserver society".

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