pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: THE DECONSTRUCTION OF BAUDRILLARD
THE "UNEXPECTED REVERSIBILITY" OF DISCOURSE
By: Aleksandar S. Santrac
Format: Hardback

List price: £89.95


We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10: 0773460578
ISBN 13: 9780773460577
Publisher: THE EDWIN MELLEN PRESS LTD
Series: Problems in Contemporary Philosophy S. No. 64
Pages: 224
Description: Jean Baudrillard is one of the outstanding representatives of French poststructuralism and postmodernism. Because of radical criticism it was not possible for him to establish a coherent theoretical system; the philosophical aspects of his work are specifically merged into a critical asystematic fragmentarism, which is the subject of this work.
Synopsis: Jean Baudrillard is one of the outstanding representatives both of French poststructuralism and postmodernism. Because of radical criticism it was not possible for him to establish a logically coherent theoretical system; the philosophical aspects of his work are specifically merged, therefore, into a critical asystematic fragmentarism, which is the subject of this work. From the critique of the political economy of the sign, through critiques of rationalism, reality, progress, truth, history to the theory of simulation, Baudrillard's specific para-concepts (fatal strategy, symbolic exchange, seduction, hyperreality, pataphysics, etc.) are constantly fragmentarily present in the development of his thought. These "concepts" are Baudrillard's attempt at disengagement from modern philosophy and his new, unsystematic postmodern view of reality in general. In the analysis of binary metaphysical oppositions (reality-simulation, subject-object, knowledge-seduction, history-end, radical-irradical nihilism, metaphysics (God)-pataphysics), Baudrillard is radically exclusive through the arbitrary preference of one over the other "concept".It seems that contrary to this author, however, by the "deconstruction" of his ideas, it is possible to conclude that these dualistic antagonisms are also paradoxically compatible in his "system", this compatibility is very close to the irrational mysticism of this thinker. This book is "a clear and lucid presentation of this unique brand of postmodernism to English speaking scholarship".
Publication: US
Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
Some other items by this author:

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £5.83
more details
At The Existentialist Cafe (Paperback)
Vintage Publishing
Our Price : £9.48
more details
Introducing Foucault (Paperback)
Icon Books Ltd
Our Price : £6.56
more details
The Problems of Philosophy (Paperback)
Oxford University Press
Our Price : £7.29
more details
On What Matters (Multiple copy pack)
Oxford University Press
Our Price : £56.88
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 HUMANITIES
 philosophy
 western philosophy
 modern western philosophy, c 1600 to the present
 western philosophy, from c 1900 -


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
add to basket

Learning
That''s My Story!: Drama for Confidence, Communication and C... The ability to communicate is an essential life skill for all children, underpinning their confidence, personal and social wellbeing, and sense of self.
add to basket