Jean Baudrillard by Douglas Kellner

Jean Baudrillard by Douglas Kellner

Over the last two decades, Jean Baudrillard has become one of Europe's most fashionable and controversial writers with his contributions to the analysis of modern society and culture. This new book is the first full-length study of Baudrillard's work in English. Kellner analyses the development of Baudrillard's ideas and assesses their contribution to contemporary debates. He discusses Baudrillard's precursors and contemporaries - Freud, McLuhan, Foucault - and examines his more original preoccupations with "simulacra", terrorism and pornography. Kellner provides an analysis which aims to stimulate debate in its own right and provide an introduction to Baudrillard for students of the social sciences, literary theory and cultural and media studies.

Douglas Kellner is editor of the groundbreaking book Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism (Macmillan and University of California Press, 1984) and The Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse. Kellner is Philosophy of Education Chair of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at UCLA. Tyson Lewis is assistant professor of educational philosophy at Montclair State University. Clayton Pierce is a postdoctoral research associate in the department of education, culture, and society at the University of Utah. K. Daniel Cho is assistant professor of education and director of the program in critical theory at Otterbein College.

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ISBN 13	9780745605623
ISBN 10	0745605621
Title	Jean Baudrillard
Author	Douglas Kellner
Series	Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Polity Press
Year published	1989-09-28
Number of pages	240
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