Jean Baudrillard: In Radical Uncertainty (Modern European Thinkers) - Softcover

Gane, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745316352 ISBN 13: 9780745316352

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2000

Synopsis

Mike Gane provides an introduction to recent developments in French theorist Jean Baudrillard’s thinking. This volume reflects Baudrillard’s new concern with radical uncertainty and the way in which he has reconfigured his earlier thinking in the light of more recent ideas and theories.

The author disputes the notion that Baudrillard has now become an increasingly extreme theorist, remote from the realities of the world - and argues instead that new developments in Baudrillard’s work are a more appropriate reflection on a world of extremes. This book explicitly challenges the conservative response to Baudrillard’s work, and underlines the significance of what Baudrillard himself terms the ‘fourth order of simulation’, in a major contribution to new debates on the significance of recent developments in Western culture and society.

About this title

Synopsis:

This work provides an introduction to recent developments in French theorist Jean Baudrillard's thinking. It reflects Baudrillard's new concern with radical uncertainty and the way in which he has reconfigured his earlier thinking in the light of more recent ideas and theories.

About the Author:

Mike Gane is Chair of the Sociology Department at Loughborough University, and has written numerous books on ideology, cultural and literary theory, gender and social theory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0745316352
• ISBN 13: 9780745316352
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128