Fatal Strategies
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 20. January 1999
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-7453-1458-7 (ISBN)
Description
'The world is not dialectical ... madness now rules everywhere' - Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard is one of France's leading modern thinkers and a scholar whose work has necessitated major reassessments across several academic disciplines. Fatal Strategies, first published in France in 1983, comprises his key writings on postmodernism.
In this fascinating collection, Baudrillard challenges many of our assumptions about the world in which we live. Claiming that the world is sworn to extremes, he turns received wisdom on its head, arguing for the triumph of unreason and of the victory of the pure object and its 'ironic strategy' over the subject.
He looks at illusion, secrets, the visible and the hidden, and claims that the only possible response to the delirious world is the ultimatum of realism and the Principle of Evil.
Jean Baudrillard is one of France's leading modern thinkers and a scholar whose work has necessitated major reassessments across several academic disciplines. Fatal Strategies, first published in France in 1983, comprises his key writings on postmodernism.
In this fascinating collection, Baudrillard challenges many of our assumptions about the world in which we live. Claiming that the world is sworn to extremes, he turns received wisdom on its head, arguing for the triumph of unreason and of the victory of the pure object and its 'ironic strategy' over the subject.
He looks at illusion, secrets, the visible and the hidden, and claims that the only possible response to the delirious world is the ultimatum of realism and the Principle of Evil.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Library binding
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7453-1458-7 (9780745314587)
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Person
Jean Baudrillard was one of France's leading thinkers in the 20th and early 21st century. His work has been widely translated into English. He died in 2007.
Content
1. Ecstasy & Inertia
2. Figures of the Transpolitical:
The Obese
The Hostage
The Obscene
3. Ironic Strategies:
Evil Genie of the Social
Evil Genie of the Object
Evil Genie of the Passion
4. The Object & Its Destiny
Supremacy;
Absolute Commodity;
In Praise of Sexual Object
Gray Imminence;
Crystal Revenge;
Fatal or Reversible Imminence;
Ceremony of World
5. For a Principle of Evil
2. Figures of the Transpolitical:
The Obese
The Hostage
The Obscene
3. Ironic Strategies:
Evil Genie of the Social
Evil Genie of the Object
Evil Genie of the Passion
4. The Object & Its Destiny
Supremacy;
Absolute Commodity;
In Praise of Sexual Object
Gray Imminence;
Crystal Revenge;
Fatal or Reversible Imminence;
Ceremony of World
5. For a Principle of Evil