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Jean Baudrillard / William Pawlett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pawlett, William.
- Series:
- Key Sociologists
- Key Sociologists ; v.4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007--Criticism and interpretation.
- Baudrillard, Jean.
- Sociologists--France.
- Sociologists.
- Sociology--France--Philosophy.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This uniquely engaging introduction to Jean Baudrillard's controversial writings covers his entire career focusing on Baudrillard's central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through the clarification of this key term a very different Baudrillard emerges: not the nihilistic postmodernist and enemy of Marxism and Feminism that his critics have constructed, but a thinker immersed in the social world and passionately committed to a radical theorizsation of it.Above all Baudrillard sought symbolic spaces, spaces where we might all, if only temporarily, shake off the sys
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Object System, the Sign System and the Consumption System; 2 The 'Break' with Marxism; 3 Symbolic Exchange and Death; 4 Simulation and the End of the Social; 5 The Body, Sexuality and Seduction; 6 Into the Fourth Order; 7 War, Terrorism and 9/11; 8 Subjectivity, Identity and Agency; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 3-89322-984-1
- 1-134-16930-2
- 1-281-06279-0
- 9786611062798
- 0-203-93736-8
- 9780203937365
- OCLC:
- 316143364
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