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The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena

The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena

by JeanBaudrillard (Author), JamesBenedict (Translator), J.S.Baddeley (Translator)

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Synopsis

In this, his most important collection of essays since Le systeme des objets, Jean Baudrillard contemplates Western culture after the orgy -- the orgy, that is, of the revolutions of the 1960s. The sexual revolution has led, he argues, not to sexual liberation but to a reign of transvestism, to a confusion of the categories of man and woman -- to the androgenous and Frankenstein appeal of a Michael Jackson. The revolution in art has led to a transaesthetic realm of indifference. The cybernetic revolution has blurred the distinction between man and machine, while the political revolution has led to a 'transpolitics' that merely simulates old political forms. Such are the points of Baudrillard's compass as he steers his way through the mental landscape of this febrile fin de siecle.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 29 Mar 1993
ISBN 10: 0860915883
ISBN 13: 9780860915881

Media Reviews
Such quality and accuracy of insight indicate both the power of Baudrillard's initial position and the value of the French tradition of the grand philosophical analyst moving freely through the culture. - Brian Appleyard, The Spectator We may not like Baudrillard's merciless honesty about the modern age, but we need his voice: the crow on the shoulder. - Pat Kane, The Scotsman
Author Bio
Jean Baudrillard was born in Rheims in 1929 and now lives in Paris. From 1966 to 1987 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 and (from Verso) America, and Cool Memories. His most recent books to appear in France are La guerre de Golfe n'a pas eu lieu and L'illusion de la fin.