The System of Objects
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The System of Objects
By (Author) Jean Baudrillard
Translated by James Benedict
Verso Books
Verso Books
2nd June 2020
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Cultural studies
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
306.46
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 16mm
199g
Description
The System of Objects is a tour de forcea theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the dayoffering a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society.
Reviews
A sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left. * 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 *
Modest, independent, and devastatingly humorous, Jean's work transmitted the lost urbanity of the mid-20th century while speaking of and into the future. -- Chris Kraus
Author Bio
Jean Baudrillard(19292007) began teaching sociology at the Universit de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007.
