Jean Baudrillard

by Baudrillard, Jean; Poster, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780804742726
• ISBN10: 0804742723
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

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 Baudrillard'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 Baudrillard'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."Contemporary Sociology "Following the lead of thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze, Baudrillard engages in a task of pointingawayfrom 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."Choice "Poster's Introduction presents what is probably as clear and intelligent an exposition of Baudrillard's ideas as you'll find anywhere."Philosophy and Literature

Author Biography

Jean Baudrillard is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris X, Nanterre. Mark Poster is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vi
Notes on the Translation	viii
Introduction	1	(12)
Mark Poster
The System of Objects	13	(19)
Consumer Society	32	(28)
For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign	60	(41)
The Mirror of Production	101	(21)
Symbolic Exchange and Death	122	(30)
On Seduction	152	(17)
Simulacra and Simulations	169	(19)
Fatal Strategies	188	(22)
The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media	210	(13)
Cool Memories	223	(8)
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place	231	(23)
The Illusion of the End	254	(12)
The Perfect Crime	266	(10)
Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit	276	(16)
Index	292