| Jean Baudrillard: Against Banality Contributor(s): Pawlett, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415386454 ISBN-13: 9780415386456 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $46.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: This uniquely engaging introduction to Jean Baudrillards controversial writings covers his entire career focussing on Baudrillards 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 theorisation 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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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Philosophy | Social - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 301.092 |
| LCCN: 2007020950 |
| Series: Key Sociologists |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.52" W x 7.81" (0.49 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |