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Book Overview
Baudrillard's essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition. "The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning." First published in France in 1987, The Ecstasy of...
--from The Ecstasy of Communication
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1584350571
ISBN13:9781584350576
Release Date:November 2012
Publisher:Semiotext(e)
Length:88 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Modern Philo Par Excellence
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This book is a riot and a total joy to read. Baudrillard skitters over all the modern fixtures (Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, Derrida) citing no one, instead whipping together confections that result in immediate addiction to his prosaic bakery. All his books glow like embers after being read, but this one in particular sews up a lot of his interests: modern existence enslaved by the eye, history as a mass recapitulation of fantasy put on by nostalgia, the secret as already always revealed.
A stimulating book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
A major contribution to the theory of postmodernity written in a mentally stimulating way.
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