Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory Hardback
by Paul (University of Nottingham, UK) Hegarty
Part of the Live Theory series
Hardback
Description
Jean Baudrillard's work on how contemporary society is dominated by the mass media has become extraordinarily influential.
He is notorious for arguing that there is no real world, only simulations which have altered what events mean, and that only violent symbolic exchange can prevent the world becoming a total simulation.
An ideal introduction to this most singular cultural critic and philosopher, Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory offers a comprehensive, critical account of Baudrillard's unsettling, visionary and often prescient work.
Baudrillard's relation to a range of thinkers as diverse as Nietzsche, Marx, McLuhan, Foucault and Lyotard is explained, and the impact of his thought on contemporary politics, popular culture and art is analysed.
Finally, in the new interview included here, Baudrillard outlines his own position and responds to his critics.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/03/2004
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- ISBN:9780826462824
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/03/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780826462824
