Symbolic Exchange And Death

Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial ofcontemporary social theorists. This major work appearing in English for thefirst time oc... » 

Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial ofcontemporary social theorists. This major work appearing in English for thefirst time occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities andsocial sciences around the idea of postmodernism.It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxismthe enchantment of fashion symbolism about sex and the body and the relationsbetween economic exchange and death. Most significantly the book representsBaudrillards fullest elaboration of the concept of the three orders of thesimulacra defining the historical passage from production to reproduction tosimulation.A classic in its field Symbolic Exchange and Death is a key source for theredefinition of contemporary social thought. Baudrillards critical gazeappraises social theories as diverse as cybernetics ethnographypsychoanalysis feminism Marxism communications theory and semiotics. «