Fragments; Interviews with Jean Baudrillard
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Fragments presents a set of brilliantly intriguing interviews with Jean Baudrillard whose work today occupies center stage in the analysis of consumerism, terrorism, and contemporary culture. In these frank discussions with François L'Yvonnet, Baudrillard reveals for the first time in detail the thinkers who have been the dominant influences on his work during his career. Instead of examining his work as a project of intellectual accumulation, he challenges all the major interpretations of his work by suggesting he has always adopted an anti-system, anti-totality strategy. Even globalization is accompanied in his view by a Western culture which itself is no longer a well-founded confident universalism.
Perhaps most interestingly, Baudrillard discusses his life's work in relationship to his contemporaries -- Bataille , Barthes, Lyotard and Deleuze - and explores his position as an outsider in the field of French philosophy. Baudrillard in these interviews is in sparkling form, and in his ownwords he presents not only a lively introduction to this great thinker but also gives readers a window into a brilliant mind.
About the Author
Jean Baudrillard, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris, is one of the most important thinkers of the past hundred years. He is a leading critic of the postmodern culture, the economy of communication and the media system. A prolific writer, he is the author of such well-known works as System of Objects; Consumer Society; Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign; The Mirror of Production; Symbolic Exchange and Death; On Seduction; Simulacra and Simulation; Fatal Strategies; America; The Transparency of Evil; and Cool Memories.
Chris Turner, who has translated many of Baudrillard's most acclaimed works into English, has also translated works by Paul Virilio and Andre Gors.
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