Del 126 - Critical Lives

Jean Baudrillard

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Jean Baudrillard, once hailed as a ‘historian of the future’, remains a vital figure for understanding modern life. Famous for ideas like ‘simulation’ and the ‘hyperreal’, linked to postmodernism and The Matrix, Baudrillard was both celebrated and controversial, known for bold pronouncements about events like the Gulf War and 9/11. Yet the man himself was enigmatic, leading a public life while remaining personally elusive.This first biography in English explores Baudrillard’s life and work, tracing his journey from the early years and French intellectual prominence to his global influence as a thinker, photographer and public intellectual. Using newly uncovered material, it provides fresh insights into his major works and ideas, offering readers a clear guide to his singular, uncompromising philosophy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-09-01
Mått130 x 200 x 12 mm
Vikt284 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Lives
Antal sidor184
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781836391036

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"Jean Baudrillard, as this new biography is titled, is brief. This is in part because the man revealed little about his life. At a 2005 talk at Tilton Gallery, he said he was simply “the simulacrum of myself.” What makes the book so fun to read is that you can see him living out his own pronouncements with his signature wry humor, making his abstract ideas into concrete behaviors, not unlike a performance artist. Quite literally, the book makes his ideas come alive." - Art in America"Emmanuelle Fantin and Bran Nicol have produced a brilliant book on the richly creative and compelling analyses of the prolific French thinker Jean Baudrillard. Baudrillard’s work on technology and its impact, consumerism, the media, signs and simulations continues to resonate with the digitalization of our experience of everyday life and Jean Baudrillard deserves to be widely read." - Barry Smart, Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth"How could such a celebrated French intellectual have remained so elusive and enigmatic? This paradoxical provocation is addressed through attention to Baudrillard’s literary forms: fragments, aphorisms, theory fictions. Sophisticated and user friendly, it appeals to scholars and beginners as well as the Baudrillardian in all of us." - Diane Rubenstein, Professor Emerita of Government, Cornell University