{"product_id":"2026200015142-secondhand-selected-writings","title":"Selected Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew thinkers have so radically unsettled our understanding of modern life as Jean Baudrillard, and Selected Writings — edited and introduced by Mark Poster — presents the essential gateway into his provocative and labyrinthine intellectual universe. This landmark anthology gathers key excerpts from Baudrillard's most influential works, tracing his intellectual evolution from a Marxist-inflected critique of consumer society through his groundbreaking theories of simulacra, hyperreality, and the implosion of meaning in a media-saturated world. Drawing on semiology, psychoanalysis, and political economy, Baudrillard argues that contemporary culture has severed its connection to the real, leaving only an endless circulation of signs and simulations that are more real than reality itself.\n\nPoster's authoritative editorial introduction contextualises Baudrillard's development within broader currents of French poststructuralist and postmodern thought, making this volume an indispensable resource for students and scholars alike. The prose oscillates between the brilliantly incisive and the deliberately provocative, challenging the reader to abandon comfortable assumptions about consumption, power, media, and truth. A work that continues to resonate — and disturb — decades after its first publication, Selected Writings leaves one wondering: if the map has replaced the territory, what landscape do we actually inhabit?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203188138203,"sku":"2026200015142-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/68973fa9-0899-4cde-9793-c89053faf8de.png?v=1788145294","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015142-secondhand-selected-writings","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}