The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical Culture Book

Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Arendt, the Household, and Convenience	15
Ch. 3	Marxist Perspectives on Consumption	43
Ch. 4	Settling American Space	65
	Marx's Insight	65
	Setting America's Space in Order	69
	Agriculture as a Limit of the Body	81
Ch. 5	Setting Bodies in Motion	91
Ch. 6	Weber, Protestantism, and Consumption	113
	The Value of Weber's Argument	113
	Luther and Calvin's Attitudes Toward Earthly Life	117
	Worldly Asceticism and the Emergence of the Cage	130
Ch. 7	Nietzsche and Modern Asceticism	147
Ch. 8	Traces of Modern Asceticism	167
	Hobbes and Mortality	167
	Locke and Convenience	181
	Marx and Necessity	186
Ch. 9	The End of Death	197
	Notes	209
	Index	275