Symbolic Exchange and Death

Jean Baudrillard

SAGE Publications, Dec 7, 1993 - Philosophy - 254 pages

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.

A classic in its field, Symbolic Exc

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I like Baudrillard in spite of myself. The concept of hyperreality as outlined by him is for me the most profound view, that I've encountered outside of fiction, of the social and cultural world of ...

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Discreditable and thoughtful; a book ment to blow up my mind. I did like it.

About the author

Jean Baudrillard (1929--2007) was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Symbolic Exchange and Death; Volume 25 of Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society; Volume 25 of Theory, culture and society
• Author: Jean Baudrillard
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, 1993
• ISBN: 0803983999, 9780803983991
• Length: 254 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General; Social Science / Death & Dying; Social Science / Sociology / General