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Comfort and Contemporary Culture: The problems of the 'good life' on an increasingly uncomfortable planet

Comfort and Contemporary Culture: The problems of the 'good life' on an increasingly uncomfortable planet

Hickey, Andrew

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General SociologyArt & Popular Culture

ISBN10: 1032536543
ISBN13: 9781032536545
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 14 2025
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

To be comfortable stands as an aspiration of the times; to be comfortable defines what it means to live 'the good life'. We talk about such things as maintaining a comfortable home, a comfortable lifestyle and a comfortable retirement. We seek out comforts in the relationships we sustain, the leisure practices we enact and the possessions we accumulate. We look for promises of comfort in the words of a close friend and our next pair of shoes. Furnished in the home, optionally outfitted in cars, scrutinised in holiday brochures and brushed up against in the clothes we wear, comfort is there, marking distinctions and framing decisions about what it means to live well. But by consuming comfort in the ways that we do, we do ourselves harm and limit our only planet of its capacity to provide for the requirements of life. This is a world that grows ever more uncomfortable because of comfort and when linked to consumption and excess, indulgence and apathy, it occurs that comfort carries effects that have existential consequence.

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