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The uncollected Baudrillard / edited by Gary Genosko.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007.
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. English. 2001
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, French--20th century.
- Philosophy, French.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (167 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. This wide ranging and expertly edited book examines the work of the young Baudrillard, it deepens our understanding of his seminal work on consumer culture by presenting his early essays on McLuhan, Lefebvre and Marcuse. The influence of German traditions of thought are clearly revealed, and Baudrillard′s neglected and out of print writing on aesthetics is rediscovered and reprinted. Extracts from his political diaries and commentaries o.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Gary Genosko
- Part 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
- Part 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)
- Part III. The Poetry of Theory
- Stucco Angel
- Part IV. Political Bankruptcy on the Left and Right
- The Divine Left
- Dropping Out of History: Interview with Sylvere Lotringer
- Our Theatre of Cruelty
- Part 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
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786610370047
- 9781280370045
- 1280370041
- 9781412932127
- 1412932122
- OCLC:
- 70773980
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