Jean Baudrillard
critical live
- ISBN: 9781836391036
- Editorial: Reaktion Books Ltd.
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Colección: Critical Lives
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 21 cm
- Nº Pág.: 184
- Idiomas: Inglés
Jean Baudrillard, once hailed as a 'historian of the future', remains a vital figure for understanding modern life. Famous for ideas like 'simulation' and the 'hyperreal', linked to postmodernism and The Matrix, Baudrillard was both celebrated and controversial, known for bold pronouncements about events like the Gulf War and 9/11. Yet the man himself was enigmatic, leading a public life while remaining personally elusive.
This first biography in English explores Baudrillard's life and work, tracing his journey from the early years and French intellectual prominence to his global influence as a thinker, photographer and public intellectual. Using newly uncovered material, it provides fresh insights into his major works and ideas, offering readers a clear guide to his singular, uncompromising philosophy.
1. Belonging and Breaking Away, 1929-66
2. Objects and Objections, 1966-70
3. Becoming 'Baudrillard': Seductions and Provocations, 1970-79
4. Life on the Other Side: Art and America, 1980-86
5. 'My own strange world': Baudrillard's Alternative 1980s
6. Total Freedom, 1990-2004
