Consumption and use in mass culture in light of Hannah Arendt
Abstract
Based on Hannah Arendt's considerations about consumption and use, this article intends to understand how these elements developed mass culture and society. According to Hannah Arendt, use is understood as the enjoyment of goods produced to compose the artificiality of the world, and consumption is considered an incessant cycle for the maintenance of the species, which builds the foundation for the formation of society and mass culture and the fragmentation of political action.
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