Product Description

In this, his most accessible and evocative book, France's leading philosopher of postmodernism takes to the freeways in a collection of traveler's tales from the land of hyperreality.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73127 in Books
• Published on: 1989-10
• Original language: French
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 129 pages

Review
'Since de Toqueville, French thinkers have been fascinated with America. But when it comes to mysterious paradoxes and lyrical complexity no French intellectual matches Jean Baudrillard in contemplating the New World... [He] has become a sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left." -- New York Times "The collection of wild, often hilarious postcards from his trip to America contains some of the year's most orignal and beautiful writing." -- New Statesman and Society " ... occasionally provocative and almost always infuriating ... America is filled with perceptive, almost poetic observations." -- Rolling Stone "A mixture of crazy notions and dead-on insights, America is a valuable (and voluable) picture of what Mr. Baudrillard calls 'the only remaining primitive society' -- ours." -- New York Times Book Review

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

About the Author
Jean Baudrillard was born in Rheims in 1929 and now lives in Paris. From 1966 to 1987 he taught sociology at the University of Nanterre. Among his works translated into English are In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, Simulations and Simulacra and (forthcoming from Verso) Cool Memories.