Baudrillard Now : Current Perspectives in Baudrillard Studies
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Overview
The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the faceof critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the21st century. His work on simulation, media, the status of theimage, the system of objects, hyperreality, and informationtechnology continues to influence intellectual work in a diverseset of fields. This volume uniquely provides overviews ofBaudrillard's career while also simultaneously includingexamples of current works on and with Baudrillard that engage someof the many and varied ways Baudrillard's work is beingaddressed, deployed, and critiqued in the present. As such, itoffers chapters useful to the novice and the well-versed incritical theory and Baudrillard Studies alike. Contributors to thevolume include John Armitage, John Beck, Ryan Bishop, Doug Kellner, John Phillips and Mark Poster.
No less controversial today than he was in the past, Baudrillardcontinues to divide intellectuals and academicians, an issue thisvolume addresses by re-engaging the writing itself without fallinginto either simplistic dismissal or solipsistic cheerleading, butrather by taking the fecundity operative in the thought and meetingits consistent challenge. Baudrillard Now provokes sustainedinteraction with one of philosophy's most important, provocative and stimulating thinkers.
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- ISBN-13: 9780745647074
- ISBN-10: 0745647073
- Publisher: Polity Press
- Publish Date: August 2009
- Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 200
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