This unique and fascinating book concentrates on the varying roles and functions that material culture may play in almost all aspects of the social fabric of a

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A refreshing distillation of insights into the human condition, by one of the best-known and most popular philosophers in the UK. Thinking about life, what it m

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Presents an analysis of nineteenth-century English fiction, focusing on objects found in three Victorian novels, arguing that these items have meanings the mode