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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Baudrillard, Jean. Symbolic exchange and death. London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 1993 (DLC) 93085813 (OCoLC)30156621 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean Baudrillard |
ISBN: | 0585333904 9780585333908 9781446280423 144628042X 1473998409 9781473998407 9781848609266 1848609264 |
OCLC Number: | 45843635 |
Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
Notes: | Translation of: L'échange symbolique et la mort. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Introduction / Mike Gane -- The End of Production -- The Order of Simulacra -- Fashion, or The Enchanting Spectacle of the Code -- The Body, or The Mass Grave of Signs -- Political Economy and Death -- The Extermination of the Name of God. |
Series Title: | Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered) |
Other Titles: | Echange symbolique et la mort. |
Responsibility: | Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Iain Hamilton Grant ; with an introduction by Mike Gane. |
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This is easily Baudrillard's most important work. It is a key intervention in the debates on modernity and postmodernity and the site of his postmodern turn. Anyone who wants to understand the complexity and provocativeness of Baudrillard's richest period must read this text. -- Douglas Kellner Without doubt Baudrillard's most important book. -- Mike Gane Baudrillard's most widely admired text, or at least, as he himself once wryly observed, "the last book that inspired any confidence".... For anyone seeking a way into Baudrillard's highly inventive, uncompromising, and occasionally maddening oeuvre, Symbolic Exchange and Death is still one of the best places from which to start. -- Radical Philosophy Baudrillard has a warm glow of nostalgia about his earlier work. He claims it is "the last book that inspired any confidence". If the newly translated Symbolic Exchange and Death had been available earlier, the perception of Baudrillard as a postmodernist playboy might have been different. It bridges the gap between his early serious work and the later funny work. -- The Modern Review Arguing that a political economy predicted on commodity value has long since been replaced by the political economy of the sign, Baudrillard traces the hyperrealist consequences of the "end of production" through chapters focusing on fashion, the body and death. The seeming inevitability of the triumph of the "semiotic" commodity over "symbolic" (gift) exchange is shown to be an error perpetrated by Marxist theory, which has itself been absorbed into "the code" that governs the transformation of value. Baudrillard's intention is to defeat the code by turning its own logic against it, inverting Marx, Freud, and finally Saussure in an effort to abolish "value" itself. His analysis is carried along on its own rhetorical force... achieves extraordinary insight into the malaise pervading late-capitalist societies. -- Choice Read more...

