Passwords

Passwords - Paperback

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Passwords

Passwords - Paperback

by Jean Baudrillard
$19.95
Sale price  $19.95 Regular price 

Book Overview

In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption, and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touches the very heart of the concerns of the generation currently rebelling against the framework of the consumer society. With the ever-greater mediatization of society, Baudrillard argues that we are witnessing the virtualization of our world, a disappearance of reality itself, and perhaps the impossibility of any exchange at all. This disenchanted perspective has become the rallying point for all those who reject the traditional sociological and philosophical paradigms of our age.

Passwords offers us twelve accessible and enjoyable entry points into Baudrillard's thought by way of the concepts he uses throughout his work: the object, seduction, value, impossible exchange, the obscene, the virtual, symbolic exchange, the transparency of evil, the perfect crime, destiny, duality, and thought.
ISBN9781844676767
Author Jean Baudrillard
PublisherVerso
GenreEducation and Philosophy
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2011
Edition2
LanguageENG- English
Pages112
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard was born in Reims in 1929. He taught sociology at the University of Paris X (Nanterre). Among his works translated into English are In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, Simulations and Simulacra, Fatal Strategies, Seduction, America, Cool Memories and The Transparency of Evil.

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