當代法國哲學家、社會哲學家布西亞（Jean Baudrillard）《消費社會》（La Societe de consommation）乃當代社會哲學重要著作，不僅以後結構主義、符號理論和交換理論探討了物的消費品化、消費社會的結構，消費社會的「神話」所造成的危害和浪費，也論及消費理論和大眾傳媒、身體（作為消費品和象徵符號）等問題。本課程希望能透過文本研讀與分析，瞭解當代消費社會問題的形成，以及消費與我們的生存（死亡）的關係。
本課程除涉及物、消費和功用化等問題的探討，涉及的問題探討尚有大眾媒體（尤其是廣告媒體）與消費神話，符碼化問題，「我」的消費與被消費，並將介紹與學習當代重要理論：擬像（Simulation）理論，象徵符號理論與交換理論，身體哲學。 其次，本課程包含消費理論和個別消費現象的分析。理論部分，除了消費理論，尚有：物的形式，價值理論。 個別消費現象的分析，大致分為三大部分：媒體（尤其，廣告及大眾傳媒）與消費，身體作為消費品，時間作為消費品。

"La Societe de consommation" (La Societe de consommation) by contemporary French philosopher and social philosopher Jean Baudrillard is an important work in contemporary social philosophy. It not only explores the consumerization of objects, the structure of consumer society, and the harm and waste caused by the "myth" of consumer society through post-structuralism, semiotic theory, and exchange theory, but also discusses issues such as consumption theory, mass media, and the body (as consumer goods and symbols). This course hopes to understand the formation of contemporary consumer society issues and the relationship between consumption and our survival (death) through text study and analysis.
In addition to the discussion of issues such as objects, consumption and functionalization, this course also involves the discussion of mass media (especially advertising media) and consumer myths, issues of symbolization, the consumption and being consumed of "I". It will also introduce and learn important contemporary theories: Simulation theory, symbol theory and exchange theory, and body philosophy. Secondly, this course includes consumption theory and analysis of individual consumption phenomena. In the theoretical part, in addition to consumption theory, there are also: form of objects and value theory. The analysis of individual consumption phenomena can be roughly divided into three parts: media (especially advertising and mass media) and consumption, the body as a consumer good, and time as a consumer good.

讓•鮑德里亞：《消費社會》，劉成富﹧全志鋼譯。南京：南京大學出版社，2008年
Jean Baudrillard: La Societe de consommation.
Jean Baudrillard: The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures.

Jean Baudrillard: "Consumer Society", translated by Liu Chengfu and Quan Zhigang. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2008
Jean Baudrillard: La Societe de consommation.
Jean Baudrillard: The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures.