Seduction

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Jean Baudrillard
Translated by Brian Singer
Nothing Can Be Greater than Seduction Itself, Not Even the Order that Destroys It
"With seductive irony, Baudrillard storms the fragile phallic fortress of patriarchy in this heady, sometimes obscure meditation."
—Publishers Weekly
"Seduction is a theory-fiction which resembles nothing which has preceded it. It turns many contemporary discourses inside out, even the most radical, and could very well challenge all modern theory, even, indeed, the rules of theoretical production itself."
—Libération
"Jean Baudrillord's Seduction jars because it uproots the question of the functional ends of seduction by directly likening it to on endless game which con only end in death."
—Critique
" for Baudrillard, is not seduction a new figure of our freedom?"
—L'Express
Seduction is Jean Baudrillord's most provocative book. Here, under the sign of seduction all of modern theory is put into question, feminism... Tovább

Fülszöveg

ill.« ^^ -» «.«ar
SecUttUcM.
Jean Baudrillard
Translated by Brian Singer
Nothing Can Be Greater than Seduction Itself, Not Even the Order that Destroys It
"With seductive irony, Baudrillard storms the fragile phallic fortress of patriarchy in this heady, sometimes obscure meditation."
—Publishers Weekly
"Seduction is a theory-fiction which resembles nothing which has preceded it. It turns many contemporary discourses inside out, even the most radical, and could very well challenge all modern theory, even, indeed, the rules of theoretical production itself."
—Libération
"Jean Baudrillord's Seduction jars because it uproots the question of the functional ends of seduction by directly likening it to on endless game which con only end in death."
—Critique
" for Baudrillard, is not seduction a new figure of our freedom?"
—L'Express
Seduction is Jean Baudrillord's most provocative book. Here, under the sign of seduction all of modern theory is put into question, feminism and psychoanalysis most of all. Seduction speaks of the sudden reversibility in the order of things where discourse is absorbed into its own signs without a trace of meaning. In the sudden triumph of seduction in apocalyptic culture there is also signaled the end of history.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Nanterre. Among his works translated into English are America, Simulations and Simulacra, Forget Foucault, In Shadow of the Silent Maiorities, and For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign.
BRIAN SINGER teaches at Glendon College, and is the author of Society, Theory and the French Revolution.
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