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Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena

Name: Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena
Author: Jean Baudrillard
ISBN: 9781844673452

by Jean Baudrillard, James Benedict

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Overview

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.

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

Synopsis

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

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.