Les Grands Textes du Luxe
9.90 €
Author: Olivier Assouly
Publishing House: IFM
Publication Date: November, 9, 2017
Description :Luxury transgresses the elementary order of needs. Its sometimes ruinous expenditures defy the economic rule of utility. The criteria defining it – rarity, prestige, quality, craftsmanship, tradition, know-how, etc. – have only an approximate meaning, all the more so as they characterize numerous objects. – The criteria defining it – rarity, prestige, quality, craftsmanship, tradition, know-how, etc. – have only an approximate meaning, especially since they characterize many more ordinary objects. Thus, luxury is declined in a multitude of luxuries tailored to each era, according to morals and interests, or even to an ideology justifying the use of this word rather than another. The texts with the proposed comments identify its political, economic and moral stakes, fundamentally of current interest.
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