Radical Alterity
$28.15
- Paperback
168 pages
- Release Date
25 April 2008
Summary
A focused exploration of Baudrillard’s understanding and use of alterity and “otherness,” a crucial theme that appears and reappears throughout his work as a whole.Alterity is in danger. It is a masterpiece in peril, an object lost or missing from our system, from the system of artificial intelligence and the system of communication in general.-from Radical AlterityWhere is the Other today? Can Otherness challenge our arrogant, insular cultural narcissism? From artificial intelligence to the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584350491 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584350490 |
| Author: | Jean Baudrillard, Marc Guillaume, Ames Hodges |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 25 April 2008 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Radical Alterity |
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.Economist and professor at the Universite de Paris-Dauphine, Marc Guillaume has published several works in French rethinking contemporary socioeconomics and has collaborated with such thinkers as Jacques Derrida and Jacques Attali.
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