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Jean Baudrillard

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Jean Baudrillard

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French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist (1929–2007)

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Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, and cultural theorist who developed influential ideas about how modern society creates artificial realities through media, advertising, and consumer culture. His work matters because he fundamentally changed how scholars think about the relationship between real experience and the simulated worlds created by contemporary technology and mass media.

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Instance of
human
Given name
Jean
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
Reims
Place of death
6th arrondissement of Paris
Occupation
literary critic
Employer
Paris Dauphine University
Languages spoken
French
Notable work
The Consumer Society
Field of work
social philosophy
Movement
degrowth
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influenced by
Guy Debord
place of burial
Montparnasse Cemetery
Commons category
Jean Baudrillard
date of birth
1929-07-29
date of death
2007-03-06
member of
College of 'Pataphysics
topic's main category
Category:Jean Baudrillard
name in native language
Jean Baudrillard
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writing language
French
described at URL
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has works in the collection
ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
birth name
Jean Raymond Baudrillard
interested in
Postmodernity
time period
contemporary philosophy
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Jean Baudrillard ( UK: /ˈboʊdrɪjɑːr/, US: /ˌboʊdriˈɑːr/; French: [ʒɑ̃ bodʁijaʁ]; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as hyperreality. Baudrillard wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, critique of economy, social history, aesthetics, Western foreign policy, and popular culture. Among his best-known works are Forget Foucault (1977), Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism. Nevertheless, Baudrillard had also opposed post-structuralism, and had distanced himself from postmodernism.

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