Publisher description: For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scornedthe bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken#x19;s "booboisie" and David Brooks#x19;s "bobos"#x14;all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude....