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Jean Baudrillard

Name: Jean Baudrillard
ISBN: 9781446265123

The Defence of the Real

Rex Butler,

192 pages
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eBook - PDF

Jean Baudrillard

The Defence of the Real

Rex Butler,

About this book

This book goes beyond Baudrillard?s writings on consumer objects, the Gulf War and America, to identify the fundamental logic that underpins his writings. It does this through a series of close readings of his main texts, paying particular attention to the form and internal coherence of his arguments. The book is written for all those who want a general introduction to Baudrillard?s work, and will also appeal to those readers who are interested in social theory, but who have not yet taken Baudrillard seriously.

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Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd

Year

1999

Print ISBN

9780761958338, 9780761958321

eBook ISBN

9781446265123

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Sociology

Index

Social Sciences

70

Jean 

Baudrillard 

repletion. 

He

says: 

I

lack 

everything, 

so

1

will 

eat

anything 

at

all. 

The

anorexic 

staves 

off

lack 

by

emptiness, 

the

overweight 

person 

staves 

off

fullness 

by

excess. 

Both 

are

homoeopathic 

final 

solutions, 

solutions 

by

extermination. 

(1988a: 

39)

11.

For

essays 

connecting

In

the

Shadow

with 

Baudrillard's 

arguments 

on

simulation 

and

the

consequences 

of

this 

for

criticism, 

see

Kuan-Hsing 

Chen, 

"The 

Masses 

and

the

Media: 

Baudrillard's 

Implosive 

Postmodernism' 

(1987), 

and

Briankle 

Chang, 

'Mass 

Media, 

Mass 

Mediation: 

Baudrillard's 

Implosive 

Critique 

of

Modern 

Mass-Mediated 

Culture' 

(1986). 

12.

For

an

essay 

relating 

Baudrillard's 

arguments 

concerning 

the

masses 

to

the

media 

theories 

of

cultural 

studies 

pioneer 

John 

Fiske, 

see

Deborah 

Cook, 

'Symbolic 

Exchange 

in

Hyperreality' 

(1994). 

See

also 

Robert 

Dunn, 

'Post-

modernism, 

Populism, 

Mass 

Culture 

and

the

Avant-Garde' 

(1991) 

and

Jim

Tarter, 

'Baudrillard 

and

the

Problem 

of

Post-New 

Left 

Media 

Theory' 

(1991). 

Cover
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction: Reading Baudrillard in His Own Terms
Chapter 1 - Simulation
Chapter 2 - Seduction
Chapter 3 - Doubling
Conclusion: Judging Baudrillard in His Own Terms
References
Subject Index
Name Index

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