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This is an expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most fascinating thinkers on the French intellectual scene. To the original selection of his writings from 1968 to 1985, this new edition adds examples of Baudrillard’s work since that time.
Reviews of the First Edition
“This is a good book, and the author of its selected writings, Jean Baudrillard, deserves only a share of the compliment. It is difficult to introduce a difficult author, and Mark Poster has done a brilliant job. He has selected wisely from Baudrillard’s writings. . . . More important, Poster has written what may be, pound for pound, the best introduction to a social theorist I have read. . . . Poster has somehow said everything the uninitiated needs to know before deciding to read Baudrillard.”—Contemporary Sociology
“Following the lead of thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze, Baudrillard engages in a task of pointing away from any traditional sociological themes. His writings demand that one turn away from convenient or customary interpretations of society and, in the process, one is forced to use his or her imagination in new ways.”—Choice
“Poster’s Introduction presents what is probably as clear and intelligent an exposition of Baudrillard’s ideas as you’ll find anywhere.”—Philosophy and Literature
Reviews of the First Edition
“This is a good book, and the author of its selected writings, Jean Baudrillard, deserves only a share of the compliment. It is difficult to introduce a difficult author, and Mark Poster has done a brilliant job. He has selected wisely from Baudrillard’s writings. . . . More important, Poster has written what may be, pound for pound, the best introduction to a social theorist I have read. . . . Poster has somehow said everything the uninitiated needs to know before deciding to read Baudrillard.”—Contemporary Sociology
“Following the lead of thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze, Baudrillard engages in a task of pointing away from any traditional sociological themes. His writings demand that one turn away from convenient or customary interpretations of society and, in the process, one is forced to use his or her imagination in new ways.”—Choice
“Poster’s Introduction presents what is probably as clear and intelligent an exposition of Baudrillard’s ideas as you’ll find anywhere.”—Philosophy and Literature
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New York, Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, Eastern Europe, United States, Robinson Crusoe, Los Angeles, Rights of Man, Roland Barthes, The New Industrial State, The Strategy of Desire, Walter Benjamin, Charles Levin, Eastern Bloc, International Publishers, Jean Baudrillard, Les Choses, Paul Virilio, Tel Quel, Washington Post New!
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- Hidden Persuaders by Vance packard on page 16, page 29, and page 41
- The Strategy of Desire (Classics in Communication and Mass Culture Series) by Ernest Dichter on page 29, page 41, and page 46
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- An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology, and the Nameless Others (Religion and Postmodernism Series) by Edith Wyschogrod in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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