Symbolic exchange and death / Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Iain Hamilton Grant ; with an introduction by Mike Gane.
"Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work, appearing in English for the first time, occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the read...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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London :
Sage Publications,
1993.
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| Series: | Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered).
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| Summary: | "Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work, appearing in English for the first time, occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, symbolism about sex and the body, and the relations between economic exchange and death. Most significantly, the book represents Baudrillard's fullest elaboration of the concept of the three orders of the simulacra, defining the historical passage from production to reproduction to simulation."--Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published as L'échange symbolique et la mort, © Editions Gallimard 1976. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 254 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0803983980 9780803983984 0803983999 9780803983991 |