The Intelligence of Evil: or, The Lucidity Pact (Bloomsbury Revelations) - Softcover

Baudrillard, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780935684 ISBN 13: 9781780935683

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Synopsis

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and at the height of the "War on Terror", the controversial postmodernist thinker Jean Baudrillard wrote The Intelligence of Evil. In tackling the rhetoric of the so-called "clash of civilizations" between a capitalist West and a fundamentalist religious Islam, the book also provides a summation of many of the most important themes of Baurdrillard's philosophical project.

Baudrillard here explores how neoliberal political rhetoric has divided human cultures are divided into two antagonistic forces, one based on symbolic exchange, which is dual and reciprocal, and one based on money and sign exchange, which is totalising. Non-western societies can create genuinely symbolic, durable cultures. But the western world-system, based on a logic of empire, is designed to create an integrated and sealed reality, to snap tight around the world and its image. If the first is indestructible and the second is irresistible, who can win and what will victory look like?

About this title

Book Description:

Controversial postmodern thinker explores the rhetoric of the "War on Terror" and the "Clash of Civilizations" between East and West.

About the Author:

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the post-War period. Perhaps the leading thinker of the postmodernist school, his writings cover art, media, sociology, culture and philosophy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780935684
• ISBN 13: 9781780935683
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176