Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings

Expanded Edition

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by Jean Baudrillard,

Edited by Mark Poster,

Translated by Jacques Mourrain

Stanford University Press

Due/Published June 2001, 288 pages, paper

ISBN 0804742731

This is an expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of the work of Baudrillard. As soon as I know what has been added, I'll let you know. In the meantime, here are some of the reviews of the first edition:

"This is a good book, and the author of its selected writings, Jean Baudrillard, deserves only a share of the compliment. It is difficult to introduce a difficult author, and Mark Poster has done a brilliant job. He has selected wisely from Baudrillard's writings. . . . More important, Poster has written what may be, pound for pound, the best introduction to a social theorist I have read. . . . Poster has somehow said everything the uninitiated needs to know before deciding to read Baudrillard."--Contemporary Sociology

"Following the lead of thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze, Baudrillard engages in a task of pointing away from any traditional sociological themes. His writings demand that one turn away from convenient or customary interpretations of society and, in the process, one is forced to use his or her imagination in new ways."--Choice

"Poster's Introduction presents what is probably as clear and intelligent an exposition of Baudrillard's ideas as you'll find anywhere."--Philosophy and Literature