The World Beyond Your Head

The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford
His website.
National Review review
Articles at The New Atlantis





Gary Olmstead, Against Kant and Consumerism
Rod Dreher, Is This Man Dr. Evil


Also:
Rod Dreher, Breathing with Benedict

Is Kant's (first formulation of the) categorical imperative sufficient for determining certain precepts of morality? If the choice to live the American way of life is one that cannot be attempted by everyone on the planet without the ultimate destruction of humanity, then the CI would tell us that such a lifestyle founded upon inordinate consumption is wrong.

SEP: Kant's Moral Philosophy
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals