This essay examines the increasing commodification of the body with respect to tissues, games, and embryos. Such commodifcation contributes to a diminishing sense of human personhood on an individual level, even as it erodes commitments to human flourishing at the societal level. After the case for social harm resulting from the increasing commodification of the body is made, the question becom...

Georg Simmel wamed in 1900 that capitalism creates not only a market economy but also a market culture in which "money becomes the central and absolute value."' Some cultural critics seem to take the "root of all evil" claim seriously, asserting with rhetorical flourishes filled with normative hyperbole that commodification is the primary cause of all social problems. Our anxieties about money,...

This article draws attention to the relationship between neuroethics, neuropolitics, political psycho-cultures and public and global mental health. In the hegemonic culture of neoliberalism the purpose of life has been reduced to the self-realization in economic and consumerism terms that promotes the hypercompetitive narcissistic or manic self, indifferent to the fate and suffering of others a...

Defining authenticity and authentic experience is a complex process. The actual meaning of ‘original’; however there are different interpretations based on various perspectives such as objectivism, constructivism post-modernism. Under current changing globalizing environment, cultural boundaries weakening traditions lose their meanings. Power politics play important role in heritage preservatio...

This research focuses on the development of advertising in interwar period Japan (between World War I and World War II) and the growing prevalence of the Modem Girl. As women with a certain aesthetic were popularized through advertisement campaigns, this aesthetic was disseminated to a wider audience and incited cultural change. For the purposes of this research, the rosmetics company Shiseido ...