Existentialism, Consumption, and Sustainability: Backpackers Fleeing and Finding Themselves

摘要

This paper attempts to position existentialist philosophy in relation to sustainable consumption. An extensive philosophical tradition that can address profound and difficult problems of man and his world (Comic and Beograd, 1989), existentialism may help to enrich academic and practitioner understanding of sustainable consumption and interpret the widely reported gap between consumer intentions and actions regards sustainable consumption (Gleim et al., 2013). Uptake of sustainable tourism which seeks to ameliorate negative and maximise positive impacts of the industry on hosts (Tao and Wall, 2009) has been similarly weak (Buckley, 2012).