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JEAN BAUDRILLARD
AGAINST BANALITY |
| By: |
William Pawlett |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415386454 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415386456 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 2007 |
| Series: |
Key Sociologists |
| Pages: |
222 |
| Description: |
Offers an account of the sociological dimensions of Baudrillard's thought; from his early semiological and Marxist positions to his works on illusion, terrorism and evil. This book assesses his development of sociological themes including nature and trajectory of 'the social', the ambivalence of social values and resistance to the social system. |
| Synopsis: |
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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UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
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