1st Edition
Forget Baudrillard?
192 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Without doubt, Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important figures currently working in the area of sociology an dcultural studies, but his writings infuriate as many people as they intoxcicate. This collection provides a wide-ranging, measured assessment of Baudrillard's work. The contributors examine Baudrillard's relation to consumption, modernity, postmodernity, social theory, feminism,... Read more
Chapter 1 Baudrillard: history, hysteria and consumption, Roy Porter; Chapter 2 The sweet scent of decomposition, Zygmunt Bauman; Chapter 3 Europe/America, Barry Smart; Chapter 4 Baudrillard for sociologists, Bryan S. Turner; Chapter 5 Baudrillard's woman: The Eve of seduction, Sadie Plant; Chapter 6 Baudrillard and politics, Chris Rojek; Chapter 7 Social class in postmodernity, Dean MacCannell, Juliet Flower MacCannell; Chapter 8 Cruising America, Bryan S. Turner;
Biography
Chris Rojek, Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan Turner
