The uncollected Baudrillard

The uncollected Baudrillard / edited by Gary Genosko.

Jean Baudrillard is generally recognized as one of the most important and provocative contemporary social theorists. But in the English speaking world, his reputation is largely based on books published after the 1960s, as he moved towards becoming the premier commentator on postmodernism.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baudrillard, Jean
Other Authors: Genosko, Gary
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.
Subjects:
Baudrillard, Jean.
1900-1999
Philosophy, French > 20th century.
Sociology > France > Philosophy.
Mass media > Philosophy.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Political sociology.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Sociology > Philosophy
Political sociology
Mass media > Social aspects
Mass media > Philosophy
Philosophy, French
Massenmedien > Soziologie > Aufsatzsammlung.
Kulturphilosophie > Aufsatzsammlung.
France
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Works.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Gary Genosko
  • pt. I. Young Baudrillard. The Novels of Italo Calvino. Review of William Styron's Set This House on Fire. Germany: Is it a New World? Review of Uwe Johnson's The Border: Toward the Seventh Spring of the German Democratic Republic
  • pt. II. Critique of Mass-Mediated Life. Review of Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media. Technique as Social Practice. Review of Henri Lefebvre's Taking a Position: Against the Technocrats. Ephemeral and Durable. Dialectical Utopia. Utopia: The Smile of the Cheshire Cat. Police and Play. Mass (Sociology of)
  • pt. III. The Poetry of Theory. Stucco Angel
  • pt. IV. Political Bankruptcy on the Left and Right. The Divine Left. Dropping Out of History: Interview with Sylvère Lotringer. Our Theatre of Cruelty
  • pt. V. Ironic Aesthetic Disorders. Barbara Kruger. Olivier Mosset: The Object that is None. Enrico Baj, or Monstrosity Laid Bare by Paint Itself. The Transparency of Kitsch: A Conversation with Enrico Baj.

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