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Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real
Author(s): Rex Butler (Author)
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication Date: 24 Feb. 1999
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 0761958320
- ISBN-13: 9780761958321
Book Description
This book goes beyond Baudrillard′s writings on consumer objects, the Gulf War and America, to identify the fundamental logic that underpins his writings. It does this through a series of close readings of his main texts, paying particular attention to the form and internal coherence of his arguments. The book is written for all those who want a general introduction to Baudrillard′s work, and will also appeal to those readers who are interested in social theory, but who have not yet taken Baudrillard seriously.
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Review
`The first and only book to explore, at once, the field of my work and its limits, with both the intimacy and distance required: doubling and shadowing. It gives me great pleasure to find something that, beyond commentary, sees what I see and at the same time what I am unable to see′ – Jean Baudrillard
About the Author
Rex Butler lectures in the Department of Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia.
