$46.75
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2007
Summary
Characterizing it as a “mythic discourse,” Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Michel Foucault.In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was an editor. Foucault was asked to reply, but remained silent. Forget Foucault (1977) made Baudrillard instantly infamous in France. It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault’s recent History of Sexuality-and of his entire oeuvre-and al…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584350415 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584350415 |
| Author: | Jean Baudrillard, Sylvère Lotringer, Phil Beitchman, Nicole Dufresne, Lee Hildreth, Mark Polizzotti |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2007 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents |
About The Author
Jean Baudrillard
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.Sylv re Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University.Mark Polizzotti has translated more than fifty books, including works by Patrick Modiano, Gustave Flaubert, Raymond Roussel, Marguerite Duras, and Paul Virilio. Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he is also the author of Revolution of the Mind- The Life of Andre Breton and other books.
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