The Vital Illusion (The Wellek Library Lectures) by Jean Baudrillard

By Jean Baudrillard

Aren't we really ill of intercourse, of distinction, of emancipation, of tradition? With this provocative taunt, the indomitable sociologist Jean Baudrillard demanding situations us to resist our lethal, technologically empowered renunciation of mortality and subjec

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