Jean Baudrillard
By: William Pawlett.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780415386449; 9780415386456
Subjects: Baudrillard, Jean, -- 1929-2007 -- Criticism and interpretation; Sociologists -- France; Sociology -- France -- Philosophy
Description: This introduction to Jean Baudrillard's controversial writings covers his entire career but focuses on his central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through the clarification of this key term a very different Baudrillard emerges.
Table of contents: title: The object system, the sign system and the consumer system; title: The break with marxism; title: Symbolic exchange and death; title: Simulation and the end of the social; title: Sexuality, the body and seduction; title: Into the fourth order; title: Terrorism, 9/11 and war; title: Beyond the coded self.