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Baudrillard investigates the murder of reality-"the most important event of modern history"

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

Rarely do words convey such urgency as on a page by Baudrillard.
*Los Angeles Times*

Prophet of the apocalypse, hysterical lyricist of panic, obsessive recounter of the desolation of the postmodern scene and the hottest property on the New York intellectual circuit.
*Guardian*

The most important French thinker of the past twenty years.
*J.G. Ballard*

A sharp-shooting lone ranger of the post-Marxist left.
*New York Times*