| Jean Baudrillard: In Radical Uncertainty Contributor(s): Gane, Mike (Author) |
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ISBN: 0745316360 ISBN-13: 9780745316369 Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2000 Annotation: Mike Gane provides an introduction to recent developments in French theorist Jean Baudrillard's thinking. It reflects Baudrillard's new concern with radical uncertainty and the way in which he has reconfigured his earlier thinking in the light of more recent ideas and theories.The author disputes the notion that Baudrillard has now become an increasingly extreme theorist, remote from the realities of the world - and argues instead that new developments in Baudrillard's work are a more appropriate reflection on a world of extremes. This book explicitly challenges the conservative response to Baudrillard's work, and underlines the significance of what Baudrillard himself terms the 'fourth order of simulation', in a major contribution to new debates on the significance of recent developments in Western culture and society. Click for more in this series: Modern European Thinkers |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Radicalism - Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 301.01 |
| LCCN: 00026011 |
| Series: Modern European Thinkers |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.47" W x 8.7" L (0.65 lbs) 128 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Price on Product |
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| Publisher Description: Mike Gane provides an introduction to recent developments in French theorist Jean Baudrillard's thinking. This volume reflects Baudrillard's new concern with radical uncertainty and the way in which he has reconfigured his earlier thinking in the light of more recent ideas and theories.The author disputes the notion that Baudrillard has now become an increasingly extreme theorist, remote from the realities of the world - and argues instead that new developments in Baudrillard's work are a more appropriate reflection on a world of extremes. This book explicitly challenges the conservative response to Baudrillard's work, and underlines the significance of what Baudrillard himself terms the 'fourth order of simulation', in a major contribution to new debates on the significance of recent developments in Western culture and society. |
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