Voluntary Simplicity: Responding to Consumer Culture (Rights & Responsibilities)

Daniel Doherty and Amitai Etzioni.

ISBN 10: 0742520676 / ISBN 13: 9780742520677

Published by Rowman & Littlefield/Lanham, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Voluntary Simplicity: Responding to Consumer Culture (Rights & Responsibilities)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield/Lanham
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742520676
• ISBN 13: 9780742520677
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A simpler life. In a shadow cast by the jarring beginning of the new millennium, simplicity has an undeniable appeal. Global conflicts, domestic security concerns, and a stalling economy can make keeping up with the Joneses feel like, at best, a misguided luxury. Now is not a time for excess; it is a time, it would seem, to focus on 'what really matters.' Thus the appeal of voluntary simplicity, a notion that combines the freedom of modernity with certain comforts and virtues of the past. The authors in this volume speak to the what, why, and how of voluntary simplicity (and even to some extent the where, when, and who). Those included range from contemporary academics to thinkers from the turn of the last century, from ardent supporters to staunch critics. They approach the subject from a variety of perspectives-economic, psychological, sociological, historical, and theological. Each either implicitly or explicitly helps us explore the desirability and feasibility of voluntary simplicity.

About the Author

Daniel Doherty is completing his Ph.D. at Yale University. Amitai Etzioni is university professor and the director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at The George Washington University.