
Pro Bono?
Mikkel Thorup(Author)
Zero Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 28. August 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-1-78279-867-5 (ISBN)
Description
Pro Bono? discusses philanthropy not as a social or humanitarian practice but as an integrated part of present-day creative capitalism, having a direct relation to its growing inequality. The book investigates four expressions of philanthropy as ideology: consumer philanthropy, where we are asked to consume with good conscience; corporate philanthropy where businesses engage in social work and where philanthropic associations reengineer themselves to mimic corporations; billionaire philanthropy where conspicuous consumption is now being supplemented with conspicuous philanthropy; and finally celebrity philanthropy where now one of the hallmarks of a celebrity is the commitment to use that fame to do good.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78279-867-5 (9781782798675)
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Person
Mikkel Thorup is an intellectual historian focusing on the political history of the present.