Review
"Jean Baudrillard's work has enraged and baffled critics and commentators in the English-speaking world for over 30 years. Has he gone beyond a joke? Or do his writings on the contemporary world and its significance offer us revelatory insights? One thing is certain: Baudrillard is neither an easy writer nor a soft target. The breadth of the work presented here should at last provide the means of understanding this most provocative of thinkers." -- Tech Directions
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Book Description
Jean Baudrillard is arguably one of the most central figures in the current debate on postmodernism, and this book is a selection of previously untranslated writings spanning his earliest works of the 1960s, through to his most recent. The book covers the major developments in his analysis of culture and society, the dynamics of his encounters with Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, semiotics and postmodernism.