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The Intelligence Of Evil: Or, The Lucidity PactStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionIn the wake of the 9/11 attacks, after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and at the height of the "War on Terror", the controversial postmodernist thinker Jean Baudrillard wrote The Intelligence of Evil. In tackling the rhetoric of the so-called "clash of civilizations" between a capitalist West and a fundamentalist religious Islam, the book also provides a summation of many of the most important themes of Baurdrillard's philosophical project. Baudrillard here explores how neoliberal political rhetoric has divided human cultures are divided into two antagonistic forces, one based on symbolic exchange, which is dual and reciprocal, and one based on money and sign exchange, which is totalising. Non-western societies can create genuinely symbolic, durable cultures. But the western world-system, based on a logic of empire, is designed to create an integrated and sealed reality, to snap tight around the world and its image. If the first is indestructible and the second is irresistible, who can win and what will victory look like? Promotion infoControversial postmodern thinker explores the rhetoric of the "War on Terror" and the "Clash of Civilizations" between East and West. Author descriptionJean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the post-War period. Perhaps the leading thinker of the postmodernist school, his writings cover art, media, sociology, culture and philosophy. Table of contentsIntegral Reality \ At the Margins of the Real \ The World in its Deep Illusoriness \ The Easiest Solutions--Do you want to be free?--Do you want to be anyone else? \ The Murder of the Sign \ The Mental Diaspora of the Networks \ We are All Agnostics \ The Violence Done to the Image \ Contemporary Art Contemporary with Itself \ Virtuality and Events \ Evil and Misfortune \ The Intelligence of Evil \ For Whom does the Bell of Politics Toll? \ The Destruction of the Golden Pavilion \ Duality's Revenge \ Fracture Lines \ Parallel Universes--Existential Divide--Time Divide \ Anamnesis. |