William Pawlett

Jean Baudrillard (eBook, PDF)

Against Banality

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This uniquely engaging introduction to Jean Baudrillard's controversial writings covers his entire career focusing on Baudrillard's central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through the clarification of this key term a very different Baudrillard emerges: not the nihilistic postmodernist and enemy of Marxism and Feminism that his critics have constructed, but a thinker immersed in the social world and passionately committed to a radical theorizsation of it.

Above all Baudrillard sought symbolic spaces, spaces where we might all, if only temporarily, shake off the system of social control. His writing sought to challenge and defy the system. By erasing our 'liberated' identities and suspending the pressures to compete, perform, consume and hate that the system induces, we might create spaces not of freedom, but of symbolic engagement and exchange.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134169306
• Artikelnr.: 42975858

Autorenporträt

William Pawlett is a senior lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. He received his PhD in Sociology from Loughborough University and is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Object System
the Sign System and the Consumption System 2. The 'Break' with Marxism 3. Symbolic Exchange and Death 4. Simulation and the End of the Social 5. The Body
Sexuality and Seduction 6. Into the Fourth Order 7. War Terrorism and 9/11 8. Subjectivity
Identity and Agency