From the world of the consumption to the consumption -world. Lipovestky and the paradoxes of the individualism and democratic consumerism

• Published in: Nómadas 2011-01, Vol.32 (4), p.79-95
• Main Author: Vázquez, José Francisco Durán
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Subjects: Consumerism; Consumption; Individualism; Lipovetsky, Gilles; Philosophical thought; Social facts; Social theory; Society
• ISSN: 1578-6730; 1578-6730
• DOI: 10.5209/revULNOMA.2011.v32.n4.38075

ABSTRACT IN SPANISH: En este artículo se describen las ideas fundamentales del pensamiento de Lipovestky, mostrando como el consumo se ha convertido en su obra en un fenómeno total, válido para interpretar casi cualquier aspecto de la realidad social. Se concluye diciendo que, aunque sus interpretaciones están llenas de ideas ricas y sugerentes sobre la sociedad contemporánea, también se han simplificado en exceso al vincular casi todos los hechos sociales, por más contradictorios que estos sean, a la causa común del consumo, no analizando con el debido rigor y la debida profundidad muchos de los fenómenos que describe. // ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: In this article there are described the fundamental ideas of Lipovestky's thought, showing as the consumption it has turned into his work into a total, valid phenomenon to interpret almost any aspect of the social reality. It ends up by being said that, though his interpretations are full of rich and suggestive ideas on the contemporary society, also have been simplified in excess on having linked almost all the social facts, for more contradictory than these be, to the common reason of the consumption, not analyzing with the due rigour and severity many of the phenomena that it describes.