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The Illusion of the End

The Illusion of the End

by Chris Turner (Translator), JeanBaudrillard (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

The year 2000, the end of the millenium: is this anything other than a mirage, the illusion of an end, like so many other imaginary end-points which have littered the path of history?

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 132
 Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Jan 1995
ISBN 10: 0804725012
ISBN 13: 9780804725019

Media Reviews
Baudrillard theorizes poetically about cultural and political phenomena of the last ten years--the collapse of communism, the Gulf War, the globalization of culture, scientific experimentation with nature and human life. . . . He announces with panache and black humor . . . there is neither progress nor resolution, but an indefinite recurrence of old forms, recycled and illusory. Clever and erudite, good reading. --Choice
There are three reasons for celebrating this translation. First, for the first time we are up to date with Baudrillard's ideas. Second, with the exception of Chapter 1, the material is new. . . . Third, the publishers have not added or omitted anything to the text in its translation. . . . Baudrillard weaves his argument as brilliantly as one has come to expect. --Environment and Planning
-Baudrillard theorizes poetically about cultural and political phenomena of the last ten years--the collapse of communism, the Gulf War, the globalization of culture, scientific experimentation with nature and human life. . . . He announces with panache and black humor . . . there is neither progress nor resolution, but an indefinite recurrence of old forms, recycled and illusory. Clever and erudite, good reading.---Choice
-There are three reasons for celebrating this translation. First, for the first time we are up to date with Baudrillard's ideas. Second, with the exception of Chapter 1, the material is new. . . . Third, the publishers have not added or omitted anything to the text in its translation. . . . Baudrillard weaves his argument as brilliantly as one has come to expect.---Environment and Planning
Author Bio
Jean Baudrillard was born in Reims in 1929. He taught sociology at the University of Paris X (Nanterre). Among his works translated into English are In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, Simulations and Simulacra, Fatal Strategies, Seduction, America, Cool Memories and The Transparency of Evil.