Baudrillard and Signs: Signification Ablaze

by Gary Genosko

Overview

This book relates Baudrillard's work to contemporary social r4248y. The author traces the connections between Baudrillard's work and Marx and Marxism; Lefebvre and structuralist method; the works of Saussure, Bataille, Barthes, Foucault, Mauss, Peirce, McLuhan and the Prague School. The result is an authoritative and stimulating account of Baudrillard and modern social theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415112567
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/08/1994
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction: Signs must burn! 1. Bar games 2. Simulation and semiosis 3. Varieties of symbolic exchange 4. Empty signs and extravagant objects Conclusion: Signs of Baudrillard