Full name: The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena

Author: Jean Baudrillard Year: 1990 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Non Fiction, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780860915881 9781844673452 0860915883 1844673456

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. Similar books: Simulations by Jean Baudrillard Introducing Baudrillard by Chris Horrocks Introducing Postmodernism by Richard Appignanesi The Perfect Crime by Jean Baudrillard Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer The Duck That Won the Lottery by Julian Baggini Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday Man is the Measure by Reuben Abel The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten by Julian Baggini The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham Philosophy by Edward Craig Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern Introducing Kierkegaard by Dave Robinson The System of Objects by Jean Baudrillard Mythologies by Roland Barthes Minima Moralia by Theodor W. Adorno Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille