The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact (Hardcover, English ed)

We are at war. Human cultures are divided into two basic types, two antagonistic forces, one based on symbolic exchange, which is dual and reciprocal, and one based on money and sign exchange, which is totalising. Non-western societies can create genuinely symbolic, durable cultures. But the western world-system, based on a logic of empire, is designed to create an integrated and sealed reality, to snap tight around the world and its image. If the first is indestructible and the second is irresistible, who can win and what will victory look like? The answer may lie in the capacity for violence in the world-system itself, threatening that system from within with the purest of symbolic forms, the challenge of resistance. The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact is the summation of Baudrillard's work over twenty years. It is the essential analysis of the fundamental conflict of our time.

General

Imprint:	Berg Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	November 2005
Authors:	Jean Baudrillard
Translators:	Chris Turner
Dimensions:	189 x 134 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
Edition:	English ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-84520-327-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN:	1-84520-327-5
Barcode:	9781845203276

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