The Great Texts of Luxury

To highlight and put into perspective the notion of luxury by highlighting its issues, its sources of economic and political tensions. Through a selection of texts, current or historical, the object of this work aims to highlight and put into perspective the notion of luxury by emphasizing its issues, its sources of economic and political tensions, its social springs and aesthetic, while recalling the importance that luxury has within a civilization as if the mere act of covering our needs was insufficient man. Here are some examples of luxury criticism: Plato, The Depravity of Luxury Aristotle, The Natural Boundary of Needs Rousseau, Luxury and Inequality Flaubert, Letter to Louise Colet ...