{"product_id":"baudrillard-a-critical-reader-paperback-softback-9781557864666","title":"Baudrillard; A Critical Reader (Paperback \/ softback) 9781557864666","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBaudrillard\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Critical Reader\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDouglas M. Kellner (Edited by), D Kellner (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781557864666, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 September 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003e15.7 x 21.5 x 2.9 cm, 0.595 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This work includes an introduction by Kellner and fourteen chapters whose authors creatively deal with many of the contributions, complexities and controversies surrounding one of the most troubling and delightful philosophers of our time. The introduction by Douglas Kellner is a brief, yet insightful preface to the volume. As Kellner effectively began in his earlier works, this new contribution to the growing literature on Baudrillard continues to pave a critical path.\" \u003ci\u003eScott Lukas, Perspectives on Postmodernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSelf-described \"intellectual terrorist\" Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important and provocative writers of the contemporary era. Widely acclaimed as the prophet to postmodernity, he has famously announced the disappearance of the subject, political economy, meaning, truth, the social, and the real in contemporary social formations.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Jean Baudrillard in the Fin-de-Millennium 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDouglas Kellner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The System of Objects and the Commodification of Everyday Life: The Early Baudrillard 25\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMark Gottdiener\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Commodification of Reality and the Reality of Commodification: Baudrillard, Debord, and Postmodern Theory 41\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSteven Best\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Critical Theory and Technoculture: Habermas and Baudrillard 68\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMark Poster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Semiotics, Cybernetics, and the Ecstasy of Marketing Communications 89 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKim Sawchuck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Fashion and Signification in Baudrillard 119\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEfrat Tseelon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Fatal Forms: Toward a (Neo) Formal Sociological Theory of Media Culture 135\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJonathan S. Epstein and Margaarete J. Epstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Symbolic Exchange in Hyperreality 150 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDeborah Cook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Capitalism and the Code: A Critique of Baudrillard's Third Order Simulacrum 168\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSara Schoonmaker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Simulation: The Highest Stage of Capitalism? 189\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Der Derian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Aesthetic Production and Cultural Politics: Baudrillard and Contemporary Art 209\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimothy W. Luke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Baudrillard, Modernism, and Postmodernism 227\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNicholas Zurbrugg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Valorizing “the Feminine” while Rejecting Feminism? – Baudrillard’s Feminist Provocations 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Drama of Theory: Vengeful Objects and Wily Props 292\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGary Genosko\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Baudrillard, Time and the End 313\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilliam Bogard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52470070313240,"sku":"9781557864666","price":35.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781557864666.jpg?v=1785631233","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/baudrillard-a-critical-reader-paperback-softback-9781557864666","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}