| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781844673452 | | Publisher: Verso | | Publish Date: 6/9/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 210873091 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.5H x 5.25L x 0.75T |
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| | | The renowned postmodernist philosopher''s tour-de-force contemplation of sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the revolutionary ''orgy'' of the 1960s. "The most important and original French thinker of the past twenty years." --J.G. Ballard
| Author Bio| Jean Baudrillard | | French post-modernist philosopher, critic, and photographer Jean Baudrillard came from a poor peasant family (he was the first in his family to attend university) to become a significant and controversial theorist on the state of modernity. In more than 50 books, Baudrillard articulated his beliefs on communication, media, reality, signification, war, capitalism, and truth. He is most famous for his theories of hyperreality, a concept based on the idea that Western civilization has moved beyond authentic reality to exist in a state of constant self-reflexive imitations and simulacra. He is (in)famous for claiming that the first Iraq war in 1991 "did not take place," as it was primarily a staged media event. |
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