Book: The Transparency Of Evil: Essays On Extreme Phenomena Former professor and French author Jean Baudrillard contemplates post-1960's Western culture. He argues that the sexual revolution led not to liberation but to confused sexual identity; the revolution in art has resulted in indifference; the cybernetic revolution has blurred the distinction between man and machine; and the political revolution has led to pseudo politics. So, what is real?
Baudrillard contemplates Western culture 'after the orgy' -- the orgy, that is, of the revolutions of the 1960s. AIDS, terrorism, Michael Jackson, Salman Rushdie are all points on Baudrillard's mental landscape of the new fin de siecle.
Details of Book: The Transparency Of Evil: Essays On Extreme Phenomena Book: The Transparency Of Evil: Essays On Extreme Phenomena
Author: Jean Baudrillard, J. St John Baddeley
ISBN: 0860915883
ISBN-13: 9780860915881
, 978-0860915881
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Jul 1993
Publisher: Verso
Number of Pages: 192
Language: English