内容説明
Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important and provocative writers in the contemporary era. Widely acclaimed as the prophet of postmodernism, he has famously announced the disappearance of the subject, meaning, truth, class and the notion of reality itself. Although he worked as a sociologist, his writing has enjoyed a wide interdisciplinary popularity and influence. He is read by students of sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, literature, French and geography.
Organized into eight sections, the volumes provide the most complete guide to Baudrillard currently available:
Section 1: Theoretical Issues
In this section the central themes informing Baudrillard's work are defined and discussed. Baudrillard's place in contemporary social thought is examined through considerations of how his work has been received. The importance of signs and the sign economy in Baudrillard's analysis is highlighted. The case for treating Baudrillard as a seminal theorist in contemporary social thought is elucidated.
Section 2: Postmodernism
Baudrillard is reluctant to regard himself as a postmodernist. Nonetheless, it is as the leading theorist of postmodernism that he is widely celebrated and generally known. This section explores Baudrillard's relation to postmodernism and demonstrates his specific contribution. Questions of Baudrillards relation to capitalism, commodification, fatalism, Lyotard, Jameson and politics are explored.
Section 3: Culture
It is now commonplace to refer to the period since the late 1980s as `the cultural turn'. Baudrillard's work provided a leading exponent of the significance of culture in understanding contemporary life. Included here are reflections on Baudrillard and corporate culturalism, power, ideology, simulation, mass media, Disney, hyperreality and leisure.
Section 4: War
In the 1990s Baudrillard became famous for the thesis that `the gulf war did not happen'. For some critics, it revealed the poverty of Baudrillard's approach. For others it showed more profoundly why his thought is an indispensable tool in grappling with the complexities of contemporary society. At all events, Baudrillard's treatment of the war represented a climacteric in critical responses to Baudrillard. In this section the various range of responses to Baudrillard's intervention are precisely delineated, providing the reader with the essential data required to decide if Baudrillard's thesis is right or wrong.
Section 5: America
America dazzles and appalls Baudrillard. In America and of Cool Memories 1&2, he documents his violent responses to America as an idea; a physical space. Included here are reflections on Baudrillard, America and postmodernism; Baudrillard's significance as an ethnographer of US life; Baudrillard and American film; Baudrillard and Reagan's America; and Baudrillard, America and the politics of simulation.
Section 6: Seduction
Baudrillard's theory of seduction is, like much else in his work, controversial. This section examines how the theory has been interpreted and criticized. The relationship between Baudrillard and feminism is examined. Applications of his theory to art and work are explored.
Section 7: Fiction and Art
Baudrillard is an unusual contemporary thinker, in as much as his writing is taken seriously by artists. Baudrillard himself has responded to this, by becoming more interested in photography in the last ten years. This section aims to provide an essential guide to the relationship between Baudrillard and art. Included here are enquiries into Baudrillard and science fiction, the relationship between Baudrillard and J G Ballard's `Crash'; Baudrillard and abstract painting; Baudrillard and Francis Bacon; Baudrillard, Benjamin and Lichtenstein; Baudrillard, Barthes and photography; and Baudrillard's theory of communication.
Section 8: Baudrillard and Other Social Theorists
The concluding part of the collection aims to situate Baudrillard in the field of contemporary social theory. Interestingly, Baudrillard himself has never attempted to compare and contrast his theoretical ideas with those of others. The 14 contributions included in this section, seek to rectify this shortcoming. The contributions cover Baudrillard and Marx; Baudrillard, Durkheim and Rousseau; Baudrillard and psychoanalysis; Baudrillard and Bataille; existentialism, postmodernism and Baudrillard; Baudrillard and McLuhan; Baudrillard and Critical Theory; Baudrillard and Habermas; Baudrillard and Deleuze; Baudrillard and de Certeau; and the fictional Baudrillard, as dreamt up by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont.
The contributions are selected and introduced by Mike Gane, Reader in Sociology at the University of Loughborough. With publications like Baudrillard's Bestiary, Baudrillard: Critical & Fatal Theory and Baudrillard Live, Gane is widely recognized as the leading secondary commentator on the work of Baudrillard. No-one else matches him in the appreciation and critical understanding of Baudrillard. In a full length 'Introduction' to the volumes, written with verve and penetration, Gane shows exactly why Baudrillard is a key thinker of our times.
Mike Gane is Professor of Sociology at University of Loughborough
目次
A Challenge To Theory
Introduction to Jean Baudrillard
PART ONE: THEORETICAL ISSUES
Toward a Politics of Signs - Jean-Claude Giradin
Reading Baudrillard
Baudrillard's Noble Anthropology - Robert Hefner
The Image of Symbolic Exchange in Political Economy
Baudrillard's Challenge - Charles Levin and Arthur Kroker
A Note on Nostalgia - Bryan S Turner
Boundaries and Borderlines - Douglas Kellner
Reflections on Jean Baudrillard and Critical Theory
Report - David Revill
Jean Baudrillard
`Why Should We Talk When We Communicate So Well?' - Arthur Kroker
Baudrillard's Enchanted Simulation
Forget Baudrillard? - Barry Sandywell
Jean Baudrillard - Paul Sutton
Transintellectual?
Baudrillard's Nihilism and the End of Theory - Anthony King
Sign and Commodity - Andrew Wernick
Aspects of the Cultural Dynamic of Advanced Capitalism
The End of Geography and Radical Politics in Baudrillard's Philosophy - Richard G Smith
PART TWO: POSTMODERNISM
Cultural Change and Social Practice - Mike Featherstone
Baudrillard, Semiurgy and Death - Douglas Kellner
Panic Baudrillard - Arthur Kroker
The Commodification of Reality and the Reality of Commodification - Steven Best
Baudrillard, Debord, and Postmodern Theory
On the Disorder of Things - Barry Smart
Sociology, Postmodernity and the 'End of the Social'
Ironies of Postmodernism - Mike Gane
Fate of Baudrillard's Fatalism
Takes on the Postmodern - Norman Denzin
Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Jameson
Baudrillard, Modernism and Postmodernism - Nicholas Zurbrugg
The Sweet Scent of Decomposition - Zygmunt Bauman
Lost in the Funhouse - Christopher Norris
Baudrillard and the Politics of Postmodernism
PART THREE: CULTURE
Baudrillard and the Metaphysics of Motivation - Philip Hancock
A Reappraisal of Corporate Culturalism in the Light of the Work and Ideas of Jean Baudrillard
Power and Politics in Hyperreality - Timothy W Luke
The Critical Project of Jean Baudrillard
Der Schwindel der Simulation - Lothar Baier
Sod Baudrillard! - Michael Billig
Or Ideology Critique in Disney World
'The Text Must Scoff at Meaning' - Stuart Sim
Baudrillard and the Politics of Simulation and Hyperreality
Mass, Media, Mass Media-Tion - Briankle G Chang
Jean Baudrillard's Implosive Critique of Modern Mass-Mediated Culture
The Masses and the Media - Kuan-Hsing Chen
Baudrillard's Implosive Postmodernism
The Paradoxical Effects of Macluhanisme - Gary Genosko
Cazeneuve, Baudrillard and Barthes
Baudrillard and the Problematics of Post-New Left Media Theory - Jim Tarter
Virtual Worlds - Marcus A Doel and David B Clarke
Simulation, Suppletion, S(ed)uction and Simulacra
Space on Flat Earth - Neville Wakefield
Disney
Sociology in the Absence of the Social - William Bogard
The Significance of Baudrillard for Contemporary Thought
Implosive Critiques - Philip Hayward
A Consideration of Jean Baudrillard's 'In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities'
A Critique of Baudrillard's Hyperreality - Anthony King
Towards a Sociology of Postmodernism
Baudrillard and Leisure - Chris Rojek
Mapping the Present from the Future - Douglas Kellner
From Baudrillard to Cyberpunk
Jean Baudrillard - Juliet Steyn
`Then We Too Shall See the Stars Fade Away'
PART FOUR: WAR
Ruses de Guerre - Deborah Cook
Baudrillard and Fiske on Media Reception
The War, The Screen, The Crazy Dog and Poor Mankind - Kevin Robbins
Consensus `Reality' and Manufactured Truth - Christopher Norris
Baudrillard and the War That Never Happened
Uncritical Criticism? - William Merrin
Norris, Baudrillard and the Gulf War
Introduction to The Gulf War Did Not Take Place - Paul Patton
PART FIVE: AMERICA
America - Paul Buhle
Post-Modernity?
The Ethnographer as Geologist - Dima Cioran
Tocqueville, L[ac]evi-Strauss, Baudrillard and the American Dilemma
Paris, Texas and Baudrillard on America - Norman K Denzin
The Homogenization of America - Jacques Mourrain
Baudrillard's Amerique, and the `Abyss of Modernity' - Nicholas Zurbrugg
Baudrillard's America - Arthur J Vidich
Lost in the Ultimate Simulacrum
Cruising America - Bryan S Turner
The Mirror of Reproduction - Diane Rubenstein
Baudrillard and Reagan's America
Baudrillard's America (and Ours?) - Stephen Watt
Image, Virus, Catastrophe
Post-Marx - Andrew Wernick
Theological Themes in Baudrillard's America
The 'Hyperreal' vs. the 'Really Real' - Ed Cohen
If European Intellectuals Stop Making Sense of American Culture Can We Still Dance?
Everything Solid Melts into Signs - Brian Jarvis
Jean Baudrillard
PART SIX: SEDUCTION
Either/Or - Louise Burchill
Peripeteia of an Alternative in Jean Baudrillard's De la S[ac]eduction
Room 101, or A Few Worst Things in the World - Meaghan Morris
Baudrillard's Woman - Sadie Plant
The Eve of Seduction
The Object's Seduction - Mike Gane
Postmodernism and the Clothed Meaning - Efrat Tseelon
Valorizing 'The Feminine' While Rejecting Feminism? - A Keith Goshorn
Baudrillard's Feminist Provocations
Jean Baudrillard - Andrew Wernick
Seducing God
Art, Work and Analysis in an Age of Electronic Simulation - Barry Smart
PART SEVEN: FICTION AND ART
The SF of Theory - Istvan Csiscery-Ronay Jr
Baudrillard and Haraway
Jean Baudrillard on the Current State of SF - Jonathan Benison
PART SEVEN: FICTION AND ART
In Response to Jean Baudrillard - N Katherine Hayles et al
Ballard/Crash/Baudrillard - Nicholas Ruddick
Baudrillard as Philosopher, or The End of Abstract Painting - David Carrier
Panic Value - Arthur Kroker
Bacon, Colville, Baudrillard and the Aesthetics of Deprivation
The Work of Roy Lichtenstein in the Age of Walter Benjamin's and Jean Baudrillard's Popularity - Carter Ratcliffe
Baudrillard, Barthes, Burroughs, and 'Absolute' Photography - Nicholas Zurbrugg
Television is Killing the Art of Symbolic Exchange - William Merrin
Baudrillard's Theory of Communication
PART EIGHT: BAUDRILLARD AND OTHER THEORISTS
Hall of Mirrors - Joseph Valente
Baudrillard on Marx
Baudrillard's Marx - Arthur Kroker
In the Shadow of Reason - Raymond Lee
From Weber's Elective Affinity to Baudrillard's Fatalism
How to Comprehend Barbarism in the Midst of Enlightenment - Stjepan G Mestrovic
Post-Modernism in the Theory and the Sociology of Law, or Rousseau and Durkheim as Read by Baudrillard - Anthony Carty
Baudrillard, Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis - Charles Levin
Utility and Excess - William Pawlett
The Radical Sociology of Bataille and Baudrillard
Ethik Jenseits von Moral - Bernhard H F Taurek
Sartre, L[ac]evinas, Baudrillard
In the Shadow of McLuhan - Andreas Huyssen
Jean Baudrillard's Theory of Simulation
Notes and Commentary - St. Louis Telos Group
The Totally Administered Society
Jean Baudrillard - Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
Technology and Culture in Habermas and Baudrillard - Mark Poster
In the Shadow of the Deconstructed Metanarratives - Steven C Ward
Baudrillard, Latour and the End of Realist Epistemology
Baudrillard & Deleuze - Steven Maras
Re-Viewing The Postmodern Scene
The Struggle for an Affirmative Weakness - Gary Genosko
de Certeau, Lyotard, and Baudrillard
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