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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820491403321

Titolo

Forget Baudrillard? / / edited by Chris Rojek and Bryan S. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-92900-5

1-134-92901-3

0-585-45340-3

0-203-41288-5

1-280-05214-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RojekChris

TurnerBryan S

Disciplina

301/.0944

Soggetti

Sociology - France - History

Sociology - Methodology

Postmodernism - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: regret Baudrillard?; Baudrillard: history, hysteria and consumption; The sweet scent of decomposition; Europe/America: Baudrillard's fatal comparison; Baudrillard for sociologists; Baudrillard's woman: the Eve of seduction; Baudrillard and politics; Social class in postmodernity: simulacrum or return of the real?; Cruising America; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

These original papers provide a guide and analysis to one of the most controversial writers of the present day. They examine Baudrillard's work in relation to consumption, politics, feminism, culture, theory and postmodernism.