Baudrillard with Nietzsche and Heidegger: Towards a Genealogical Analysis / Vanessa Freerks, Alexander Gungov, Donald Philip Verene

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freerks, Vanessa, Author.

Contributor:

Gungov, Alexander, Editor.

Verene, Donald Philip, Editor.

Series:

Studies in historical philosophy ; 4.

Studies in Historical Philosophy 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baudrillard.

Heidegger.

Nietzsche.

Philosophie.

Philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Baudrillard.

Heidegger.

Nietzsche.

Philosophie.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hannover ibidem 2021

Biography/History:

Vanessa Freerks is a post-doctoral fellow at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and a research associate at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa). Her main research interests revolve around consumer society, temporality, technology, and death denial in western society. She is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Brighton's Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics.

Summary:

Vanessa Freerks analyzes how Baudrillard re-actualizes Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, investigating how themes and approaches in Baudrillard’s Consumer Society, Simulacra and Simulations and Symbolic Exchange and Death resonate with Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. This book fills a gap in the limited literature available on the relation between Baudrillard’s thought to that of Nietzsche and Heidegger. Baudrillard with Nietzsche and Heidegger: A Contrastive Analysis is essential reading for students and scholars of continental philosophy, sociology, and cultural theory.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Abstract

Introduction

Chapter Outline

1. The Morality of Consumption: Reading Baudrillard's Consumer Society with Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals

1.1 Baudrillard Reading Nietzsche

1.2 Baudrillard's critical semiology

1.3 Aristocratic and Slave Narratives

Conclusion

2. Processes of Subjection and the Figure of the Ascetic Priest

2.1 The Genesis of the Subject

2.2 Economies of Debt and Exchange in Nietzsche and Baudrillard

2.3 The "Liturgy of Solicitude"

2.4 Ascetic ideals and consumer society

3. The End of Transcendence in Consumer Society

3.1 Wasteful Expenditure

3.2 Ascetic consumption

3.3 Pseudo-Events in Consumer Society

4. The Reversal of Platonism

4.1 The Reversal of Platonism

4.2 The Simulacrum and the Motivation for Plato's Method of Division

4.3 Baudrillard's Simulacrum

5. Hyperreality of Simulation

5.1 Genealogy of Simulacra

5.2 The Hyperreal Structural Law of Value

5.3 The Causes of Simulation

5.3.1 Simulation as an economic effect

5.3.2 Simulation as media effect

5.3.3 Simulation and the Death of God

6. Baudrillard and Heidegger: Towards a Genealogy of Death

6.1 Death and Subjectivity

6.2 Baudrillard (Re-)socializing Death

6.3 Beyond death as natural fatality

6.4 (Re-) Situating Heidegger and Baudrillard

Concluding Remarks and Summary of the Study

7. Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

9783838274744

3838274741

OCLC:

1285781316

Publisher Number:

9783838274744