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Jean Baudrillard's now familiar investigations into reality and hyper-reality shift here into a more metaphysical frame

About the Author

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.

Reviews

First prize for cerebral cold-bloodedness goes to French philosopher Jean Baudrillard.
*The New York Times*

The most notorious intellectual celebrity to emerge from Paris since Roland Barthes and the most influential prophet of the media since Marshall McLuhan.
*i-D magazine*