The Horn of Plenty

A brief theory of luxury. Düsseldorf 2021. English/Deutsch. 232 pages, 11.5x18.5cm.

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How do we define luxury?

Not with money or time, but diversity. Yet contemporary modes of living luxuriously have lost sight of this reality. This is why theory is needed to provide a course correction. As in evolution, luxury drives both diversity and a variety of forms in the history of individualism, too. In the same way that natural luxury breeds biodiversity, human luxury breeds ego diversity. Without natural luxury, individual luxury, too, will die out.


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