Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings - Softcover

Baudrillard, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804714800 ISBN 13: 9780804714808

Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr, 1988

Synopsis

This is an expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most fascinating thinkers on the French intellectual scene. To the original selection of his writings from 1968 to 1985, this new edition adds examples of Baudrillardâ s work since that time.

Reviews of the First Edition

This is a good book, and the author of its selected writings, Jean Baudrillard, deserves only a share of the compliment. It is difficult to introduce a difficult author, and Mark Poster has done a brilliant job. He has selected wisely from Baudrillardâ s writings. . . . More important, Poster has written what may be, pound for pound, the best introduction to a social theorist I have read. . . . Poster has somehow said everything the uninitiated needs to know before deciding to read Baudrillard.â Contemporary Sociology

Following the lead of thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze, Baudrillard engages in a task of pointing away from any traditional sociological themes. His writings demand that one turn away from convenient or customary interpretations of society and, in the process, one is forced to use his or her imagination in new ways.â Choice

Posterâ s Introduction presents what is probably as clear and intelligent an exposition of Baudrillardâ s ideas as youâ ll find anywhere.â Philosophy and Literature

About this title

From the Publisher:

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From the Back Cover:

Jean Baudrillard, alternately provocative and astonishing, is one of the leading theorists of media and culture. Regarded by many as the chief prophet of postmodernism, his writings raise important issues about the changing nature of social and political life in our contemporary, media-saturated age.

This book makes his most important writings available in a single volume. It includes selections from the entire range of his work, from his early writings on consumer culture and the political economy of the sign to his more recent work on desire, simulation and the 'hyperreal'.

This new edition includes five new extracts from Baudrillard's writings in the 1990s, including his writings on the Gulf War, on the internet and his autobiographical reflections. It also includes an updated introduction by Mark Poster which provides an extremely lucid overview of Baudrillard's work.

Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings is an excellent introduction to the thought of one of the most important and influential thinkers of our day.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0804714800
• ISBN 13: 9780804714808
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238