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Forget Foucault (Paperback, new edition)
Jean Baudrillard; Introduction by Sylvere Lotringer; Translated by Phil Beitchman, Nicole Dufresne, Lee Hildreth, …
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Characterizing it as a "mythic discourse," Jean Baudrillard
proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful,
seductive figure of Michel Foucault. In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent
this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault
was an editor. Foucault was asked to reply, but remained silent.
Forget Foucault (1977) made Baudrillard instantly infamous in
France. It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault's recent
History of Sexuality-and of his entire oeuvre-and also an attack on
those philosophers, like Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who
believed that desire could be revolutionary. In Baudrillard's eyes,
desire and power were interchangeable, so desire had no place in
Foucault's work. There is no better introduction to Baudrillard's
polemical approach to culture than these pages, in which
Baudrillard dares Foucault to meet the challenge of his own
thought. This Semiotext(e) edition of Forget Foucault is
accompanied by a dialogue with Sylvere Lotringer, "Forget
Baudrillard," a reevaluation by Baudrillard of his lesser-known
early works as a post-Marxian thinker. Lotringer presses
Baudrillard to explain how he arrived at his infamous
extrapolationist theories from his roots in the nineteenth and
early twentieth century social and anthropological works of Karl
Marx, Marcel Mauss, and Emil Durkheim.
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