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The Rebel Sell:

Why The Culture Can't Be Jammed
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HarperCollins Canada, Jun 1, 2010 - Business & Economics - 368 pages

With the popularity of Michael Moore, Adbusters magazine and Naomi Klein’s No Logo, it’s hard to ignore the growing tide of resistance to our corporate-controlled world. But do these vocal opponents of the status quo offer us a real political alternative?

In this lively blend of pop culture, history and philosophical analysis, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter argue that this countercultural opposition to "the system" has not only been unproductive but has helped to create the very consumer society that radicals oppose. This thought-provoking book will enrage and entertain today’s countercultural rebels and their opponents on the political right.

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Review: The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed

User Review  - Luke Echo - Goodreads

Heath and Potter make some very good arguments about why merely attacking 'culture' is a waste of time or worse counter-productive in the fight for the left. And that the counter-culture of Ad-busting ... Read full review

Review: The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed

User Review  - Rob Johnston - Goodreads

The nature of concepts is something I find interesting and while this book isn't about that, it does a good job of demonstrating the fluidity of the concept of capitalism. What this book demonstrates ... Read full review

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About the author (2010)

Joseph Heath is an associate professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Communicative Action and Rational Choice and The Efficient Society, a Maclean’s and Globe and Mail bestseller,which was also selected as one of the best books of 2001 by the Globe and Mail.

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