Snelle Levering Baudrillard for beginners – Horrocks, Chris & Jevtic, Zoran

This work traces the work of Jean Baudrillard, the postmodernist intellectual who has been hailed one of France’s most powerful theorists. His style and assaults on sociology, feminism and Marxism have exposed him to accusations of promoting a dangerous new orthodoxy. The book presents his claims that reality has been replaced by a simulated world of images and events ranging from TV news to Disneyland. It provides accounts of his work on pornography, obesity and terrorism, and traces his development from c…