The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena (Radical Thinkers)

The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena (Radical Thinkers)

Jean Baudrillard, James Benedict (Translated by)
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Publication Date: June 9th, 2009
Publisher:
Verso
ISBN:
9781844673452
Pages:
208
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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.

About the Author

Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) began teaching sociology at the Université de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007. His many works include Simulations and Simulacra, America, The Perfect Crime, The System of Objects, Passwords, The Transparency of Evil, The Spirit of Terrorism, and Fragments, among others.

Praise for The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena (Radical Thinkers)

“The most important and original French thinker of the past twenty years.”—J. G. Ballard

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