Overview

Jean Baudrillard, once hailed as a 'historian of the future', remains a vital figure for understanding modern life. Famous for ideas like 'simulation' and the 'hyperreal', linked to postmodernism and The Matrix, Baudrillard was both celebrated and controversial, known for bold pronouncements about events like the Gulf War and 9/11. Yet the man himself was enigmatic, leading a public life while remaining personally elusive. This first biography in English explores Baudrillard's life and work, tracing his journey from the early years and French intellectual prominence to his global influence as a thinker, photographer and public intellectual. Using newly uncovered material, it provides fresh insights into his major works and ideas, offering readers a clear guide to his singular, uncompromising philosophy.

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Emmanuelle Fantin and Bran Nicol have produced a brilliant book on the richly creative and compelling analyses of the prolific French thinker Jean Baudrillard. Baudrillard’s work on technology and its impact, consumerism, the media, signs and simulations continues to resonate with the digitalization of our experience of everyday life and Jean Baudrillard deserves to be widely read. * Barry Smart, Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth *

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Emmanuelle Fantin is Assistant Professor in Communication and Media Studies at Sorbonne Universite. Her books include Le livre dont Jean Baudrillard est le heros (with Camille Zehenne, 2023). Bran Nicol is Professor of English Literature at the University of Surrey. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction (2009).

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