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The Perfect Crime

The Perfect Crime

1996 ·
·3.91·241 Ratings ·156 Pages
“ This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ” ― Rumi
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  • The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

    2005·
    ·3.88·233 Ratings
    There are few philosophers today cool enough to be referenced in the Matrix, interesting enough to be mentioned on Six Feet Under, and popular enough to get over 606,000 hits on Google. Jean Baudrillard has succeeded in all of this and more. Now, in his l
  • The Illusion of the End

    1994·
    ·3.81·154 Ratings
    The year 2000, the end of the millennium: is this anything other than a mirage, the illusion of an end, like so many other imaginary endpoints which have littered the path of history?In this remarkable book Jean Baurdrillard—France's leading theorist of
  • Passwords

    2003·
    ·3.74·178 Ratings
    In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption, and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touches the very heart of the concerns of the generation currently rebelling against the framework of the consumer society. With the ever-great
  • The Spirit of Terrorism and Other essays

    2003·
    ·3.74·585 Ratings
    Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter - not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real fo
  • The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures

    1998·
    ·4.12·616 Ratings
    This is the first English-language translation of Jean Baudrillard's contemporary classic on the sociology of consumption. Originally published in 1970, the book was one of the first to focus on the processes and meaning of consumption in contemporary cul
  • Impossible Exchange

    2001·
    ·3.95·181 Ratings
    The uncertainty of the world lies in the fact that it has no equivalent anywhere; it cannot be exchanged for anything. The uncertainty of thought lies in the fact that it cannot be exchanged either for truth or for reality.Jean Baudrillard’s now familia
  • Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

    2009·
    ·3.73·138 Ratings
    “Behind every image, something has disappeared. And that is the source of its fascination,” writes French theorist Jean Baudrillard in Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? In this, one of the last texts written before his death in March 2007,
  • Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History

    1987·
    ·4.19·163 Ratings
    First of this two-volume work providing an imaginative interpretation of the image of women in the collective unconscious of the fascist "warrior" through a study of the fantasies of the men centrally involved in the rise of Nazism.
  • Critique of Economic Reason

    1989·
    ·4.42·59 Ratings
    André Gorz’s earlier books—from Ecology as Politics to Farewell to the Working Class and Paths to Paradise—have informed and inspired the most radical currents in Green movements in Europe and America over the last two decades. In Critique of Econo
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