Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings: Second Edition

by Jean Baudrillard, Mark Poster (Editor), Jacques Mourrain (Translator)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804742726
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2002
Edition description:	2
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jean Baudrillard is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris X, Nanterre. Mark Poster is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.

Notes on the Translation.

Introduction: Mark Poster.

1. The System of Objects.

2. Consumer Society.

3. For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign.

4. The Mirror of Production.

5. Symbolic Exchange and Death.

6. On Seduction.

7. Simulacra and Simulations.

8. Fatal Strategies.

9. The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media.

10. Cool Memories.

11. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place.

12. The Illusion of the End.

13. The Perfect Crime.

14. Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit.