Jean Baurdillard: Selected Writings (ed. Mark Poster; Standford University Press 1988) is the first comprehensive overview of Jean Baudrillard’s philosophical thinking.
Baudrillard has developed a theory to make intelligible one of the most perplexing aspects of advanced industrial society: the proliferation of communications through the media. He theorizes from the vantage point of the new media to argue that a new culture has emerged, one that is impervious to the old forms of resistance and impenetrable by theories rooted in traditional metaphysical assumptions. Culture is dominated by simulations, Baurdillard contends, objects and discourses that have no firm origin, no referent, no ground or foundation 8…) The selections in this volume represent a cross section of Baurdillard’s writings from 1968 to 1985 and are drawn mostly from his major books. About half of the selections appear in English translation for the first time.
– Mark Poster (ed.) Jean Baurdillard: Selected Writings (Standford University Press, 1988), excerpt from the book description
The text is in English; no illustrations.
Our copy in stock is in good condition. The pages are clean, some markings and underlines on occasional texts, and the previous owner’s signature on the first flyleaf. The glueing of the binding is fine. The covers show some small traces of shelf wear and use. There is an old price sticker on the back cover.
