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Jean Baudrillard (French: [ʒɑ̃ bodʁijaʁ], UK: / ˈ b oʊ d r ɪ j ɑːr /, US: / ˌ b oʊ d r i ˈ ɑːr /, ; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies.
Apr 22, 2005 · Associated with postmodern and poststructuralist theory, Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) is difficult to situate in relation to traditional and contemporary philosophy. His work combines philosophy, social theory, and an idiosyncratic cultural metaphysics that reflects on key events and phenomena of the epoch.
Feb 26, 2018 · In a society dominated by production, Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) argues, the difference between use-value and exchange-value has some pertinence. Certainly, for a time, Marx was able to provide a relatively plausible explanation of the growth of capitalism using just these categories.
Jul 1, 2024 · Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist and cultural theorist whose theoretical ideas of “hyperreality” and “simulacrum” influenced literary theory and philosophy, especially in the United States, and spread into popular culture. After studying German at the Sorbonne, Baudrillard taught German.
A transdisciplinary thinker, Jean Baudrillard could be described as a philosopher, critical theorist, and sociologist—and at the same time none of these. At different times in his life, he would label himself a pataphysician, situationist, even “abreactionary.”
Jul 9, 2020 · This condition has pitilessly intensified in our era of smartphones and social media, and though philosopher and sociologist Jean Baudrillard died three months before the introduction of the iPhone, nothing about it would surprise him.
Simulacra and Simulation (French: Simulacres et Simulation) is a 1981 philosophical treatise by the philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard, in which he seeks to examine the relationships between reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture and media involved in constructing an ...
Jean Baudrillard, né le 27 juillet 1929 à Reims et mort le 6 mars 2007 à Paris, est un philosophe et sociologue français, théoricien de la société contemporaine, connu surtout pour ses analyses des modes de médiation et de communication de la postmodernité.
May 11, 2018 · The French intellectual Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929) is widely acclaimed as one of the master visionary thinkers of postmodernism and post-structuralism.
Oct 2, 2021 · Jean Baudrillard’s theoretical system contains two significant categories of analysis: an anthropological notion of symbolic exchange, which is contrasted with that of simulation. The development of his conception of symbolic exchange, from the 1970s into the...
