In addition to photopied materials, we will be discussing Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), available in numerous cheap editions. If you prefer reading on-line, you can have the entire text at your fingertips here. (We still have some remnants of a public domain). Also we will be using readings from The Consumer Society Reader (Juliet Schor & Douglas Holt, eds. 2000).
My office hours are Thursday, 2:30-4, and Friday, 10-11, in JG642, and by appointment at other times. Please email me for an appointment, or consult my assistant, Kristie Hart, Room 603A, x42656.
For the week of April 7, please read Douglas Holt, "Does Cultural Capital Structure American Consumption" and Alex Kotlowitz, "False Connections" in The Consumer Society Reader 212-252 (Holt & Schor eds. 2000).
Jeremy Waldron, "Transcendental Nonsense" and System in the Law, 100 Colum. L. Rev. 16 (2000)
Dean E. Murphy, Kin of Marine Who Shot Policemen Ask if He Is a Casualty of War, New York Times, January 14, 2005
Adam Liptak, Freed After 44 Years, a Prison Journalist Looks Back and Ahead, New York Times, January 17, 2005Stay tuned.....