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Great critical marketing books
Critical Marketing: Issues in Contemporary MarketingCritical Marketing: Issues in Contemporary Marketing
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This provides the most comprehensive overview of critical marketing scholarship available to date
The Sane Society (Routledge Classics)The Sane Society (Routledge Classics) by Erich Fromm
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Fromm's discussion of the marketing character is compelling
To Have or to Be?To Have or to Be? by Erich Fromm
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Fromm's arguement about the negative impact of a 'having' orientation should be requried reading for all marketing scholars
Marketing Discourse: A Critical Perspective (Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research)Marketing Discourse: A Critical Perspective (Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research) by Per Skålén
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A Foucauldian history of marketing
The Undermining of Beliefs in the Autonomy and Rationality of ConsumersThe Undermining of Beliefs in the Autonomy and Rationality of Consumers by John O'Shaughnessy
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A great overview of theory relating to free will and autonomy that is especially important given the debates about agency versus autonomy (e.g. Arnould, 2007; Tadajewski and Brownlie, 2008)
Consuming People (Consumer Research & Policy Series)Consuming People (Consumer Research & Policy Series)
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A great overview of marketing and postmodernism
Philosophical and Radical Thought in MarketingPhilosophical and Radical Thought in Marketing
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A major critical marketing text
Postmodern Marketing (Consumer Research & Policy)Postmodern Marketing (Consumer Research & Policy) by Stephen Brown
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It is debtable whether postmodernism is really that critical. This is still an excellent text nonetheless
The Myth of Green Marketing: Tending Our Goats at the Edge of ApocalypseThe Myth of Green Marketing: Tending Our Goats at the Edge of Apocalypse by Toby Smith
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A critique of green marketing, drawing on Laclau and Mouffe
The History of Marketing Thought (SAGE Library in Marketing)The History of Marketing Thought (SAGE Library in Marketing)
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The most comprehensive collection of literature dealing with the history of marketing thought
Rethinking Marketing: Towards Critical Marketing AccountingsRethinking Marketing: Towards Critical Marketing Accountings
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