Summary
Overview
Key Readings
Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important and provocative writers in the contemporary era. Widely acclaimed as the prophet of postmodernism, he has famously announced the disappearance of the subject, meaning, truth, class and the notion of reality itself. Although he worked as a sociologist, his writing has enjoyed a wide interdisciplinary popularity and influence. He is read by students of sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, literature, French and geography.
Organized into eight sections, the volumes provide the most complete guide to Baudrillard currently available:
Section 1: Theoretical Issues
In this section the central themes informing Baudrillard's work are defined and discussed. Baudrillard's place in contemporary social thought is examined through considerations of how his work has been received. The importance of signs and the sign economy in ...
A Challenge to Theory: Introduction to Jean Baudrillard
Baudrillard's career has not been a typical one. He was the first generation from his family, based in the Ardennes region of north eastern France, to establish a position as teacher and university lecturer. An outstandingly gifted student, he nevertheless did not take the classic route to the agrégation and the Grandes Ecoles. In fact he absconded from the preparatory class for university, and subsequently had to struggle to get a university job after many years teaching languages in French lycées. He was drawn into radical politics under the influence of Sartre in the period of the Algerian crisis. In the early 1960s he became known as the principal translator of Peter Weiss, as well as translator ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I: Volume I
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Theoretical Issues
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1. Toward a Politics of Signs: Reading Baudrillard
Jean-Claude Giradin
1974
Telos
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2. Baudrillard's Noble Anthropology: The Image of Symbolic Exchange in Political Economy
Robert Hefner
1977
Sub-Stance
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Charles Levin | Arthur Kroker
1984
Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory
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Bryan Turner
1987
Theory, Culture and Society
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5. Boundaries and Borderlines: Reflections on Jean Baudrillard and Critical Theory
Douglas Kellner
1989
Current Perspectives in Social Theory
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David Revill
1990
Paragraph
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7. “Why should we Talk when we Communicate so Well?” Baudrillard's Enchanted Simulation
Arthur Kroker
1992
The Possessed Individual
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Barry Sandywell
1995
Theory, Culture and Society
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9. Jean Baudrillard: Transintellectual?
Paul Sutton
1997
Angelaki
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10. Baudrillard's Nihilism and the End of Theory
Anthony King
1998
Telos
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11. Sign and Commodity: Aspects of the Cultural Dynamic of Advanced Capitalism
Andrew Wernick
1984
Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory
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12. The End of Geography and Radical Politics in Baudrillard's Philosophy
Richard Smith
1997
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
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Postmodernism
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13. Cultural Change and Social Practice
Mike Featherstone
1991
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
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14. Baudrillard, Semiurgy and Death
Douglas Kellner
1987
Theory, Culture and Society
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Arthur Kroker
1988
Communication
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Steven Best
1994
Baudrillard: A Critical Reader
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17. On the Disorder of Things: Sociology, Postmodernity and the ‘End of the Social’
Barry Smart
1990
Sociology
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18. Ironies of Postmodernism: Fate of Baudrillard's Fatalism
Mike Gane
1990
Economy and Society
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19. Takes on the Postmodern: Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Jameson
Norman Denzin
1991
Images of Postmodern Society
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20. Baudrillard, Modernism, and Postmodernism
Nicholas Zurbrugg
1993
Economy and Society
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21. The Sweet Scent of Decomposition
Zygmunt Bauman
1993
Forget Baudrillard?
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22. Lost in the Funhouse: Baudrillard and the Politics of Postmodernism
Christopher Norris
1990
Postmodernism and Society
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Volume II: Volume II
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Culture
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Philip Hancock
1999
Journal of Management Studies
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24. Power and Politics in Hyperreality: The Critical Project of Jean Baudrillard
Timothy Luke
1991
Social Science Journal
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25. Der Schwindel der Simulation
Lothar Baier
1986
Zeitschrift fr Europäisches Denken
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26. Sod Baudrillard! or Ideology Critique in Disney World
Michael Billig
1994
After Postmodernism: Restructuring Ideology Critique
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27. ‘The Text must Scoff at Meaning’: Baudrillard and the Politics of Simulation and Hyperreality
Stuart Sim
1992
Beyond Aesthetics: Confrontations with Poststructuralism and Postmodernism
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28. Mass, Media, Mass Media-Tion: Jean Baudrillard's Implosive Critique of Modern Mass-Mediated Culture
Briankle Chang
1986
Current Perspectives in Social Theory
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29. The Masses and the Media: Baudrillard's Implosive Postmodernism
Kuan-Hsing Chen
1987
Theory, Culture and Society
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30. The Paradoxical Effects of Macluhanisme: Cazeneuve, Baudrillard and Barthes
Gary Genosko
1994
Gary Genosko Economy and Society
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31. Baudrillard and the Problematics of Post-New Left Media Theory
Jim Tarter
1991
American Journal of Semiotics
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32. Virtual Worlds: Simulation, Suppletion, S(ed)uction and Simulacra
Marcus Doel | David Clarke
1999
Virtual Geographies
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33. Space on Flat Earth: Disney
Neville Wakefield
1990
Postmodernism: The Twilight of the Real
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34. Sociology in the Absence of the Social: The Significance of Baudrillard for Contemporary Thought
William Bogard
1987
Philosophy and Social Criticism
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35. Implosive Critiques: A Consideration of Jean Baudrillard's ‘in the Shadow of the Silent Majorities’
Philip Hayward
1984
Screen
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36. A Critique of Baudrillard's Hyperreality: Towards a Sociology of Postmodernism
Anthony King
1998
Philosophy and Social Criticism
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Chris Rojek
1990
Leisure Studies
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38. Mapping the Present from the Future: From Baudrillard to Cyberpunk
Douglas Kellner
1995
Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics between the Modern and the Postmodern
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39. Jean Baudrillard: ‘Then we Too shall See the Stars Fade Away’
Juliet Steyn
1999
Theory, Culture and Society
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War
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40. Ruses de Guerre: Baudrillard and Fiske on Media Reception
Deborah Cook
1992
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
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41. The War, the Screen, the Crazy Dog and Poor Mankind
Kevin Robins
1993
Media, Culture and Society
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42. Consensus “Reality” and Manufactured Truth: Baudrillard and the War that Never Happened
Christopher Norris
1992
Southern Humanities Review
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43. Uncritical Criticism? Norris, Baudrillard and the Gulf War
William Merrin
1994
Economy and Society
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44. Introduction to the Gulf War did Not Take Place
Paul Patton
1995
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
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Volume III: Volume III
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America
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Paul Buhle
1990
New Left Review
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46. The Ethnographer as Geologist: Tocqueville, Lévi-Strauss, Baudrillard and the American Dilemma
Dima Cioran
1992
Social Science Information
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47. Paris, Texas and Baudrillard on America
Norman Denzin
1991
Theory, Culture and Society
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48. The Homogenization of America
Jacques Mourrain
1990
Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory
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49. Baudrillard's Amérique, and the “Abyss of Modernity”
Nicholas Zurbrugg
1988
Nicholas Zurbrugg Art and Text
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50. Baudrillard's America: Lost in the Ultimate Simulacrum
Arthur Vidich
1991
Arthur J. Vidich Theory, Culture and Society
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51. Cruising America
Bryan Turner
1993
Forget Baudrillard?
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52. The Mirror of Reproduction: Baudrillard and Reagan's America
Diane Rubenstein
1989
Political Theory
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53. Baudrillard's America (and ours?): Image, Virus, Catastrophe
Stephen Watt
1991
Modernity and Mass Culture
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54. Post-Marx: Theological Themes in Baudrillard's America
Andrew Wernick
1992
Shadow of Spirit
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Ed Cohen
1989
Cultural Studies
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56. Everything Solid Melts into Signs: Jean Baudrillard
Brian Jarvis
1998
Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture
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Seduction
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57. Either/or: Peripeteia of an Alternative in Jean Baudrillard's De La Séduction
Louise Burchill
1984
Seduced and Abandoned: The Baudrillard Scene
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58. Room 101 or a Few Worst Things in the World
Meaghan Morris
1988
The Pirate's Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism
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59. Baudrillard's Woman: The Eve of Seduction
Sadie Plant
1993
Forget Baudrillard?
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Mike Gane
1991
Baudrillard: Critical and Fatal Theory
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61. Postmodernism and the Clothed Meaning
Efrat Tseëlon
1995
The Masque of Femininity
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62. Valorizing ‘the Feminine’ while Rejecting Feminism? Baudrillard's Feminist Provocations
A. Goshorn
1994
Baudrillard: A Critical Reader
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63. Jean Baudrillard: Seducing God
Andrew Wernick
1998
Post-Secular Philosophy: Between Philosophy and Theology
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64. Art, Work and Analysis in an Age of Electronic Simulation
Barry Smart
1992
Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies
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Fiction and Art
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65. The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay
1991
Science Fiction Studies
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66. Jean Baudrillard on the Current State of SF
Jonathan Benison
1984
Foundation
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Volume IV: Volume IV
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Fiction and Art
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67. In Response to Jean Baudrillard
N. Hayles | David Porush | Brooks Landon | Vivian Sobchack | J. Ballard
1991
Science Fiction Studies
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Nicholas Ruddick
1992
Science Fiction Studies
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69. Baudrillard as Philosopher or, the End of Abstract Painting
David Carrier
1988
Arts Magazine
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70. Panic Value: Bacon, Colville, Baudrillard and the Aesthetics of Deprivation
Arthur Kroker
1988
Communication
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71. The Work of Roy Lichtenstein in the Age of Walter Benjamin's and Jean Baudrillard's Popularity
Carter Ratcliff
1989
Art in America
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72. Baudrillard, Barthes, Burroughs, and ‘Absolute’ Photography
Nicholas Zurbrugg
1997
Jean Baudrillard: Art and Artefact
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73. Television is Killing the Art of Symbolic Exchange: Baudrillard's Theory of Communication
William Merrin
1999
Theory, Culture and Society
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Baudrillard and Other Theorists
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74. Hall of Mirrors: Baudrillard on Marx
Joseph Valente
1985
Diacritics
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Arthur Kroker
1985
Theory, Culture and Society
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76. In the Shadow of Reason: From Weber's Elective Affinity to Baudrillard's Fatalism
Raymond Lee
1994
Economy and Society
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77. How to Comprehend Barbarism in the Midst of Enlightenment
Stjepan Meštrović
1993
The Barbarian Temperament: Toward a Postmodern Critical Theory
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Anthony Carty
1990
Post-Modern Law: Enlightenment, Revolution and the Death of Man
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79. Baudrillard, Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis
Charles Levin
1984
Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory
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80. Utility and Excess: The Radical Sociology of Bataille and Baudrillard
William Pawlett
1997
Economy and Society
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81. Ethik Jenseits von Moral: Sartre, Lévinas, Baudrillard
Bernhard Taureck
1991
Taureck Deutsche Zeitschrift fiir Philosophie
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82. In the Shadow of McLuhan: Jean Baudrillard's Theory of Simulation
Andreas Huyssen
1989
Assemblage
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83. Notes and Commentary: The Totally Administered Society
Group
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St. Louis Telos Group Telos
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84. Jean Baudrillard
Alan Sokal | Jean Bricmont
1998
Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers' Abuse of Science
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85. Technology and Culture in Habermas and Baudrillard
Mark Poster
1981
Contemporary Literature
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Steven Ward
1994
History of the Human Sciences
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87. Baudrillard & Deleuze: Re-Viewing the Postmodern Scene
Steven Maras
1989
Continuum
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88. The Struggle for an Affirmative Weakness: De Certeau, Lyotard, and Baudrillard
Gary Genosko
1992
Current Perspectives in Social Theory
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