The Transparency of Evil
Essays on Extreme Phenomena
Published on 5. May 2020
208 pages
978-1-78960-475-7 (ISBN)
Description
The renowned postmodernist philosopher's tour-de-force contemplation of sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the revolutionary 'orgy' of the 1960s.
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Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78960-475-7 (9781789604757)
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Persons
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) began teaching sociology at the Universit¿ de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Translator's Acknowledgements
- Part I
- After the Orgy
- Transaesthetics
- Transsexuality
- Transeconomics
- Superconductive Events
- Operational Whitewash
- Xerox and Infinity
- Prophylaxis and Virulence
- Drives and Repulsions
- The Mirror of Terrorism
- Whatever Happened to Evil?
- Necrospective
- The Fate of Energy
- The Theorem of the Accursed Share
- Part II: Radical Otherness
- The Hell of the Same
- The Melodrama of Difference
- Irreconcilability
- Radical Exoticism
- Pursuit in Venice
- Viral Hospitality
- The Declination of Wills
- The Object as Strange Attractor
