Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory

by Paul Hegarty

Book Overview

Jean Baudrillard's work on how contemporary society is dominated by the mass media has become extraordinarily influential. He is notorious for arguing that there is no real world, only simulations which have altered what events mean, and that only violent symbolic exchange can prevent the world becoming a total simulation.

An ideal introduction to this most singular cultural critic and philosopher, Jean Baudrillard: live theory offers a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826462820
• ISBN13: 9780826462824
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.9"