John Armitage is Visiting Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Luxury and Visual Culture (Bloomsbury, 2020), co-editor, with Joanne Roberts, of The Third Realm of Luxury: Connecting Real Places and Imaginary Spaces (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media (2016). He is also a member of numerous editorial boards of academic journals such as Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, and Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal.

John Armitage employing the perspective of continental philosophy across a careful, always enlightening, discussion of key thinkers dismantles the taken-for-granted ideas about luxury within contemporary Western societies. This is a powerful counterpoint to theorists in the analytic tradition and to those who uncritically accept the place of luxury today.

• 1. Luxury philosophy: An Introduction2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Luxury as the Enervation of Virtue3. Jean François de Saint-Lambert: The Luxury of Appearances4. Karl Marx: Luxury is the Opposite of the Necessary5. Emmanuel Levinas: A Philosophy of Voluptuosity6. Georges Bataille: Luxury as Expenditure7. Theodor W. Adorno: The Dual Character of Luxury8. Roland Barthes: Luxury Mythology9. Luxury Philosophy Today: A ConclusionIndex

John Armitage is Visiting Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Luxury and Visual Culture (Bloomsbury, 2020), co-editor, with Joanne Roberts, of The Third Realm of Luxury: Connecting Real Places and Imaginary Spaces (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media (2016). He is also a member of numerous editorial boards of academic journals such as Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, and Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal.

John Armitage employing the perspective of continental philosophy across a careful, always enlightening, discussion of key thinkers dismantles the taken-for-granted ideas about luxury within contemporary Western societies. This is a powerful counterpoint to theorists in the analytic tradition and to those who uncritically accept the place of luxury today.

• 1. Luxury philosophy: An Introduction2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Luxury as the Enervation of Virtue3. Jean François de Saint-Lambert: The Luxury of Appearances4. Karl Marx: Luxury is the Opposite of the Necessary5. Emmanuel Levinas: A Philosophy of Voluptuosity6. Georges Bataille: Luxury as Expenditure7. Theodor W. Adorno: The Dual Character of Luxury8. Roland Barthes: Luxury Mythology9. Luxury Philosophy Today: A ConclusionIndex

John Armitage is Visiting Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Luxury and Visual Culture (Bloomsbury, 2020), co-editor, with Joanne Roberts, of The Third Realm of Luxury: Connecting Real Places and Imaginary Spaces (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media (2016). He is also a member of numerous editorial boards of academic journals such as Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, and Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal.

John Armitage employing the perspective of continental philosophy across a careful, always enlightening, discussion of key thinkers dismantles the taken-for-granted ideas about luxury within contemporary Western societies. This is a powerful counterpoint to theorists in the analytic tradition and to those who uncritically accept the place of luxury today.

• 1. Luxury philosophy: An Introduction2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Luxury as the Enervation of Virtue3. Jean François de Saint-Lambert: The Luxury of Appearances4. Karl Marx: Luxury is the Opposite of the Necessary5. Emmanuel Levinas: A Philosophy of Voluptuosity6. Georges Bataille: Luxury as Expenditure7. Theodor W. Adorno: The Dual Character of Luxury8. Roland Barthes: Luxury Mythology9. Luxury Philosophy Today: A ConclusionIndex