Undermining of Beliefs in the Autonomy and Rationality of Consumers

John O’Shaughnessy is Emeritus Professor of Business at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York. Nicholas O’Shaughnessy is Professor of Marketing and Communications at Queen Mary, University of London.

"The unbeatable father-and-son team of John-and-Nicholas O’Shaughnessy has produced another stimulating and provocative book on issues of relevance to consumer behavior, communication, and marketing. In this book, these distinguished scholars draw upon their strong backgrounds in philosophy and the social sciences to integrate ideas from two areas of inquiry – namely, bounded rationality and postmodernism. They make connections of obvious importance and profundity that have thus far remained unexplored in the literature on marketing and consumer research." Morris B. Holbrook, Dillard Professor of Marketing (Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York, NY)

• Part 1: The Renewed Interest in the Unconscious and Free Will - A Progress Report for Marketing 1. The Relegation of Free Choice and Free Will 2.The Dominance of the Adaptive Unconscious Part 2: Postmodernism: The Attack on all Aspects of Modernity and Rationality 3.The Claims made by Postmodernists 4. Central Philosophical Assertions of Postmodernism