Forget Baudrillard by David Turner (English) Hardcover Book
These original papers provide a guide and analysis to one of the most controversial writers of the present day. They examine Baudrillard's work in relation to consumption, politics, feminism, culture, theory and postmodernism.
Without doubt, Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important figures currently working in the area of sociology an dcultural studies, but his writings infuriate as many people as they intoxcicate. This collection provides a wide-ranging, measured assessment of Baudrillard's work.
The contributors examine Baudrillard's relation to consumption, modernity, postmodernity, social theory, feminism, politics and culture. They attempt to steer a clear course between the hype which Baudrillard himself has done much to generate, and the solid value of his startling thoughts. Baudrillard's ideas and style of expression provide a challenge to established academic ways of proceeding and thinking. The book explores this challenge and speculates on the reason for the extreme responses to Baudrillard's work. The appeal of Baudrillard's arguments is clearly discussed and his place in contemporary social theory is shrewdly assessed. Baudrillard emerges as a chameleon figure, but one who is obsessed with the central themes of style, hypocrisy, seduction, simulation and fatality. Although these themes abound in postmodern thought, they are also evident in a certain strand of modernist thought - one which embraces the writings of Baudelaire and Nietzsche. Baudrillard's protestation is that he is not a postmodernist is taken seriously in this collection. The balanced and accessible style of the contributions and the fairness and rigour of the assessments make this book of pressing interest to students of sociology, philosophy and cultural studies. This collection of original papers provides a prismatic guide and reckoning to one of the most controversial and poorly understood writers of the present day.His work in relation to consumption, politics, feminism, culture, theory and postmodernity is clearly discussed and evaluated. The picture of Baudrillard that emerges is surprising but always engaging and accessible. This book is a benchmark for understanding and assessing this dazzling and disturbing writer.
Stephen Turner is Graduate Professor at the University of South Florida, USA. Baudrillard: History, Hysteria and Consumption 2. The Sweet Scent of Decomposition 3. Europe/America - Baudrillard's Fatal Comparison 4. Baudrillard's Woman: The Eve of Seduction 6.
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- ISBN-13: 9780415059886
- ISBN: 9780415059886
- EAN: 9780415059886
- Publication Year: 1993
- Type: Textbook
- Format: Hardcover
- Language: English
- Book Title: Forget Baudrillard?
- Item Height: 216mm
- Author: Chris Rojek, Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan Turner
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Topic: Popular Philosophy
- Item Width: 138mm
- Item Weight: 1157g
- Number of Pages: 192 Pages