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America Jean Baudrillard

America By Jean Baudrillard

America by Jean Baudrillard


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Summary

New edition of this classic study of the US, with a new introduction by Geoff Dyer.

America Summary

America by Jean Baudrillard

From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night-a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity-Baudrillard mixes apercus and observations with a wicked sense of fun to provide a unique insight into the country that dominates our world. In this new edition, leading cultural critic and novelist Geoff Dyer offers a thoughtful and perceptive take on the continued resonance of Baudrillard's America.

America Reviews

Occasionally provocative and almost always infuriating ... America is filled with perceptive, almost poetic observations. * Rolling Stone *
Since de Tocqueville, French thinkers have been fascinated with America. But when it comes to mysterious paradoxes and lyrical complexity no French intellectual matches Jean Baudrillard in contemplating the New World. * The New York Times *
A mixture of crazy notions and dead-on insights, America is a valuable (and voluble) picture of what Mr. Baudrillard calls 'the only remaining primitive society' ... ours. * The New York Times Book Review *

About Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) began teaching sociology at the Universite de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007.

Additional information

GOR002929730
9781844676828
184467682X
America by Jean Baudrillard
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Verso Books
20100920
160
N/A
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