We examine age differences in materialism with children and adolescents 8–18 years old. In study 1, we find materialism increases from middle childhood to early adolescence and declines from early to late adolescence. Further, we find that age differences are mediated by changes in self-esteem occurring from middle childhood through adolescence. In study 2, we prime self-esteem to obtain furthe...

Abstract Within the last couple of years, recently established field research called “New Materialism” has made its entry into studies Romanticism, and especially that Romantic body. Hitherto a subject explored through guises medicine, anatomy, physiology on one hand deconstruction poststructuralism other, body is now being re‐interpreted within itself vowed return to material agentive intercon...

The author questions the extent to which Freud's theory of culture can justify Freud’s postulated claim concerning the social causation of neuroses. Since the premises on which Freud bases his cultural theory are untenable, it is argued that this justification cannot be supplied by it. This is followed by an examination of Freud’s arguments against historical materialism, and a further reasoned...

With Marx’s Ecology, John Bellamy Foster has written the definitive account of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels’s materialism. Its title notwithstanding, Marx’s Ecology is far more than an account of Marx’s thinking about nature. Marx’s materialism is not contained within the critique of capitalism, Foster argues, but rather the other way around—it is Marx’s critique of capitalism that is contain...

The present set of studies aimed to explore the effect of self-esteem on corrupt intention and the mediating role of materialism in generating this effect. In Study 1, we used questionnaires to investigate the correlation among self-esteem, materialism, and corrupt intention. In Study 2, we manipulated self-esteem to explore the causal effect of self-esteem on materialism and corrupt intention....

This text proposes to overcome the wide-spread error of dismissing Marx’s critique all materialism before him as being reductionist and therefore philosophically scientifically unacceptable. Instead, it attempts create a non-reductionist understanding practice in philosophy — especially by referring key contributions Althusser Bhaskar criticizing ‘materialist illusion’ early Marx thereby articu...