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Jean Baudrillard - Against Banality (Paperback, New Ed): William Pawlett Jean Baudrillard - Against Banality (Paperback, New Ed)
William Pawlett
R1,167 Discovery Miles 11 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This uniquely engaging introduction to Jean Baudrillard's controversial writings covers his entire career focussing on Baudrillard's central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through the clarification of this key term a very different Baudrillard emerges: not the nihilistic postmodernist and enemy of Marxism and Feminism that his critics have constructed, but a thinker immersed in the social world and passionately committed to a radical theorisation of it.

Above all Baudrillard sought symbolic spaces, spaces where we might all, if only temporarily, shake off the system of social control. His writing sought to challenge and defy the system. By erasing our 'liberated' identities and suspending the pressures to compete, perform, consume and hate, that the system induces, we might create spaces not of freedom, but of symbolic engagement and exchange.

Violence, Society and Radical Theory - Bataille, Baudrillard and Contemporary Society (Paperback): William Pawlett Violence, Society and Radical Theory - Bataille, Baudrillard and Contemporary Society (Paperback)
William Pawlett
R1,702 Discovery Miles 17 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled 'inexplicable' - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful. The book offers an understanding of violence as fundamental to social relations and social organisation, departing from studies that focus on individual offenders and their psychological states to concentrate instead on the symbolic relations or exchanges between agents and between agents and the structures they find themselves inhabiting. Developing the notion of symbolic economies of violence to emphasise the volatility and ambivalence of social exchanges, Violence, Society and Radical Theory reveals the importance to our understanding of violence, of the relationship between the structural or systemic violence of consumer capitalist society and forms of 'counter-violence' which attack this system. A theoretically rich yet grounded expansion of that which can be considered meaningful or thinkable within sociological theory, this ground-breaking book will appeal to scholars and students of social and political theory and contemporary philosophy.

Violence, Society and Radical Theory - Bataille, Baudrillard and Contemporary Society (Hardcover, New Ed): William Pawlett Violence, Society and Radical Theory - Bataille, Baudrillard and Contemporary Society (Hardcover, New Ed)
William Pawlett
R4,735 Discovery Miles 47 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled 'inexplicable' - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful. The book offers an understanding of violence as fundamental to social relations and social organisation, departing from studies that focus on individual offenders and their psychological states to concentrate instead on the symbolic relations or exchanges between agents and between agents and the structures they find themselves inhabiting. Developing the notion of symbolic economies of violence to emphasise the volatility and ambivalence of social exchanges, Violence, Society and Radical Theory reveals the importance to our understanding of violence, of the relationship between the structural or systemic violence of consumer capitalist society and forms of 'counter-violence' which attack this system. A theoretically rich yet grounded expansion of that which can be considered meaningful or thinkable within sociological theory, this ground-breaking book will appeal to scholars and students of social and political theory and contemporary philosophy.

Jean Baudrillard - Against Banality (Hardcover): William Pawlett Jean Baudrillard - Against Banality (Hardcover)
William Pawlett
R5,337 Discovery Miles 53 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This uniquely engaging introduction to Jean Baudrillard's controversial writings covers his entire career focussing on Baudrillard's central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through the clarification of this key term a very different Baudrillard emerges: not the nihilistic postmodernist and enemy of Marxism and Feminism that his critics have constructed, but a thinker immersed in the social world and passionately committed to a radical theorisation of it.

Above all Baudrillard sought symbolic spaces, spaces where we might all, if only temporarily, shake off the system of social control. His writing sought to challenge and defy the system. By erasing our 'liberated' identities and suspending the pressures to compete, perform, consume and hate, that the system induces, we might create spaces not of freedom, but of symbolic engagement and exchange.

Georges Bataille - The Sacred and Society (Hardcover): William Pawlett Georges Bataille - The Sacred and Society (Hardcover)
William Pawlett
R4,558 Discovery Miles 45 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this comprehensive and engaging study Georges Bataille's central ideas - the sacred, community and eroticism - are explored in detail. Bataille's project to understand social bonds and energies at their most fundamental level and to re-energise society by challenging individualism is argued to be of continuing relevance to sociological thought. Bataille's infamous College de Sociologie is placed in the intellectual context of Durkheimian and Maussian sociology. Social effervescence, gift exchange, and the dual, ambivalent and volatile nature of the sacred emerge as the central threads of Bataille's thought, ideas which challenge both capitalist hegemony and the reductive notion of society as exclusively normative and repressive. The study concludes by applying Bataille's ideas to contemporary issues including de-secularisation and the rise of religious fundamentalism, the vicarious experience of transgressive violence, and finally, to consumerism and the violence of globalisation. The study seeks to reposition Bataille as a key figure in sociological theory.

Georges Bataille - The Sacred and Society (Paperback): William Pawlett Georges Bataille - The Sacred and Society (Paperback)
William Pawlett
R1,283 Discovery Miles 12 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this comprehensive and engaging study Georges Bataille's central ideas - the sacred, community and eroticism - are explored in detail. Bataille's project to understand social bonds and energies at their most fundamental level and to re-energise society by challenging individualism is argued to be of continuing relevance to sociological thought. Bataille's infamous College de Sociologie is placed in the intellectual context of Durkheimian and Maussian sociology. Social effervescence, gift exchange, and the dual, ambivalent and volatile nature of the sacred emerge as the central threads of Bataille's thought, ideas which challenge both capitalist hegemony and the reductive notion of society as exclusively normative and repressive. The study concludes by applying Bataille's ideas to contemporary issues including de-secularisation and the rise of religious fundamentalism, the vicarious experience of transgressive violence, and finally, to consumerism and the violence of globalisation. The study seeks to reposition Bataille as a key figure in sociological theory.

Stratagem of the Corpse - Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra (Paperback): Gary J. Shipley Stratagem of the Corpse - Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra (Paperback)
Gary J. Shipley; Foreword by William Pawlett
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stratagem of the Corpse - Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra (Hardcover): Gary J. Shipley Stratagem of the Corpse - Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra (Hardcover)
Gary J. Shipley; Foreword by William Pawlett
R3,516 Discovery Miles 35 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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