Over the last two decades, Jean Baudrillard has become one of Europe's most fashionable and controversial writers with his contributions to the analysis of modern society and culture. This new book is the first full-length study of Baudrillard's work in English. Kellner analyses the development of Baudrillard's ideas and assesses their contribution to contemporary debates. He discusses Baudrillard's precursors and contemporaries - Freud, McLuhan, Foucault - and examines his more original preoccupations with "simulacra", terrorism and pornography. Kellner provides an analysis which aims to stimulate debate in its own right and provide an introduction to Baudrillard for students of the social sciences, literary theory and cultural and media studies.
- ISBN10 0804717389
- ISBN13 9780804717380
- Publish Date 1 December 1989 (first published 28 September 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stanford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English