The Perfect Crime

Zusatztext “Rarely do words convey such urgency as on a page by Baudrillard.”— Los Angeles Times “Prophet of the apocalypse! hysterical lyricist of panic! obsessive recounter of the desolation of the postmodern scene and the hottest property on the New York intellectual circuit.”— Guardian “The most important French thinker of the past twenty years.”—J.G. Ballard “A sharp-shooting lone ranger of the post-Marxist left.”— New York Times Informationen zum Autor Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) began teaching sociology at the Université de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007. His many works include Simulations and Simulacra , America , The Perfect Crime , The System of Objects , Passwords , The Transparency of Evil , The Spirit of Terrorism , and Fragments , among others. Klappentext The thinker whose work constitutes some of the founding documents of postmodern theory turns detective to investigate the murder of reality. Zusammenfassung The famous postmodernist thinker turns detective to investigate the murder of reality.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Baudrillard, Baudrillard Jean
• Assisted by: Chris Turner (Translation), Turner Chris (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2008
• EAN: 9781844672035
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-203-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Radical Thinkers; Radical Thinkers Set 03
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology