Fatal Strategies - Softcover

Baudrillard, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0936756500 ISBN 13: 9780936756509

Publisher: Semiotext, 1990

Synopsis

In this shimmering manifesto against dialectics, Jean Baudrillard constructs a condemnatory ethics of the "false problem." One foot in social science, the other in speculation about the history of ideas, this text epitomizes the assault that Baudrillard has made on the history of Western philosophy. Posing such anti-questions as "Must we put information on a diet?" Baudrillard cuts across historical and contemporary space with profound observations on American corporations, arms build-up, hostage-taking, transgression, truth, and the fate of theory itself. Not only an important map of Baudrillard's continuing examination of evil, this essay is also a profound critique of 1980s American politics at the time when the author was beginning to have his incalculable effect on a generation of this country's artists and theorists.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur.

About this edition

• Publisher: Semiotext
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0936756500
• ISBN 13: 9780936756509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192