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The illusion of the end

Paperback • 1994 • English

The illusion of the end

By Baudrillard, Jean

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About the book

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 postmodernity—argues that the notion of the end is part of the fantasy of a linear history. Today we are not approaching the end of history but moving into reverse, into a process of systematic obliteration. We are wiping out the entire twent...Show more

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9780804725019

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published year

1994

Language

English

Original title

The illusion of the end

Format

Paperback

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